Over 6.6 million Americans have filed job loss claims over the last few weeks, which is a new record for the U.S.
While there are many financial aid programs being created, it can be hard to navigate which ones are available to you and your family. Here are 21 resources created to help individuals in varying industries.
- Program name: Air Force Aid Society
- Type of assistance: No-interest loans and/or grants
- Minimum qualifications: Air Force, Airmen, and families
- Program name: Amazon Relief Fund
- Type of assistance: Up to two weeks of pay to all employees diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine
- Minimum qualifications: Amazon delivery drivers and seasonal employees
*Amazon is also hiring 100,000 new full and part-time fulfillment center and delivery positions across the United States. Regular pay of at least $15/hour will be increased by $2/hour.
American Guild of Musical Artists
- Program name: American Guild of Musical Artists Relief Fund
- Type of assistance: Financial assistance for rent, utilities, mental health, and medical care; as well as other basic living expenses
- Minimum qualifications: Any AGMA member in good standing or on honorable withdrawal
- Program name: Army Emergency Relief
- Type of assistance: No-interest loan
- Minimum qualifications: Active duty soldiers, their eligible family members, and more
- Program name: The Artists Safety Net
- Type of assistance: Grant
- Minimum qualifications: Established artists working in a craft discipline who are infected with COVID-19 and require intensive medical care
- Program name: Coast Guard Mutual Assistance
- Type of assistance: Loans of up to $6,000 for loss of pay by a spouse; child care needs due to school closures; and costs while quarantined, such as lodging and food
- Minimum qualifications: Member of the Coast Guard community, including active duty members, reserve members, and immediate family members
- Program name: COVID-19 Financial Assistance Program
- Type of assistance: Up to two weeks’ worth of average weekly earnings
- Minimum qualifications: Diagnosed with COVID-19 or put under quarantine individually by a public health agency; active on the DoorDash platform for at least 60 days and have completed at least 30 deliveries in the last 30 days.
- Program name: COVID-19 Merchant Financial Assistance
- Type of assistance: Commission relief and marketing support
- Minimum qualifications: DoorDash partner, independent restaurant
- Program name: Corona Relief Fund
- Type of assistance: Cash
- Minimum qualifications: Musician who has lost income due to a canceled gig as a result of COVID-19
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
- Program name: Emergency Grants
- Type of assistance: Grants of $500 to $2,500
- Minimum qualifications: Artists living and working in the United States with committed performance or exhibition opportunities
- Type of assistance: Catastrophic paid leave
- Minimum qualifications: Corporate team members of Arby’s, Jimmy John’s, Sonic, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Rusty Taco
- Program name: Extended Pay
- Type of assistance: Up to 14 days of pay for any part-time employee or full-service shopper who is diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed in mandatory isolation or quarantine, as directed by a local, state, or public health authority
- Minimum qualifications: Part-time employees and full-service shoppers
*Instacart is also hiring right now
- Type of assistance: Funds based on Lyft rides provided over the last four weeks
- Minimum qualifications: Drivers diagnosed with COVID-19 or put under individual quarantine by a public health agency
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
- Program name: Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
- Type of assistance: No-interest loans and/or grants
- Minimum qualifications: Active duty or retired Sailors and Marines, eligible family members with military ID card, surviving spouses, reservists on active duty of 30 days or more
- Program name: Emergency Coronavirus Tipped and Service Worker Support Fund
- Type of assistance: Cash
- Minimum qualifications: Restaurant workers, car service drivers, delivery workers, personal service workers, and more
- Program name: Postmates Fleet Relief Fund, Coronavirus
- Type of assistance: Company health savings account contribution
- Minimum qualifications: Fleet members who have completed at least one delivery in the last 14 days and have a Starship HSA
Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation
- Program name: RWCF COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
- Type of assistance: Cash
- Minimum qualifications: Individual workers facing economic hardships or health crises as a direct result of COVID-19; businesses that will need help reopening once the crisis is over
- Type of assistance: Catastrophe pay. At the end of 14 days, if partners are still unable to return to work, they may be eligible for additional pay replacement up to a maximum of 26 weeks.
- Minimum qualifications: Any employee who has been diagnosed with or exposed to COVID-19 or comes in close prolonged contact with someone in their store or household who has; partners experiencing symptoms; those who may need to take extra precautions, such as those 60 years or older or who have underlying health conditions.
- Type of assistance: Quarantine and confirmed illness pay, 100% of pay for up to 14 days; free back-up family care
- Minimum qualifications: Target team member
*Target is also hiring right now
- Program name: Coronavirus financial assistance
- Type of assistance: Financial assistance for up to 14 days based on average daily earnings over last six months
- Minimum qualifications: Uber driver or delivery person who has made a trip using Uber platform in the 30 days before March 6, 2020; diagnosed with COVID-19 or are personally placed in quarantine by a public health authority
USBG National Charity Foundation
- Program name: Bartender Emergency Assistance Program
- Type of assistance: Grant
- Minimum qualifications: Bartender or the spouse or child of a bartender
- Program name: Walmart Associates in Critical Need Trust
- Type of assistance: Grant
- Minimum qualifications: Walmart associate
- Type of assistance: Missed pay
- Minimum qualifications: Workers with COVID-19 or who are under mandatory quarantine
*Walmart is also hiring right now
In the mean time here are 3 ways Check Center can help get cash in hand to hold you over to your next paycheck.
3 Ways Check Center can help:
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- Oakland, CA: 302 E. 18th Street, 94606
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