Stimulus update: Deadline to apply for $500 guaranteed income program is today
Asher Notheis
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Residents of Sacramento, California, have until the end of Friday to apply for a guaranteed income program that will give recipients $500 every month for a year.
The program, which is a partnership between the city and the nonprofit group United Way, has already given 100 families in Sacramento County $300 every month since June 2021 and will select 80 applicants to receive this new $500 monthly payment. As part of this program, California State University will conduct an evaluation of the experiences of participants who are receiving this money, according to the United Way.
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Applications for this program opened on March 15 and will remain open through 11:59 p.m. this evening.
All 80 of these eligible recipients will be randomly selected among applicants. These applicants will be informed that they have been selected through email sometime between late April and early May.
To be eligible for this program, applicants must earn an income below certain limits regarding household size, with a household of one adult earning no more than $28,205 and a household of two earning $43,201. This income limit will go up slightly with every child a household has, regardless of whether the house has one or two adults. Additionally, applicants must have a residential address within Sacramento.
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The first $500 payment from this program is set to go out to recipients on July 1.
Recipients of this program will also receive surveys from California State University in Sacramento, the first of which is mandatory and the second and third being optional, with the second being issued at the end of the program and the third being issued six months after the program’s end. However, applicants who complete these optional surveys will be given $25 for both surveys completed.