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14.May recipients provide stipends to employees for eligible expenses (for example, a stipend to employees to improve telework capabilities) rather than require employees to incur the eligible cost and submit for reimbursement? Expenditures paid for with payments from the Fund must be limited to those that are necessary due to the public health emergency. As such, unless the government were to determinethatproviding assistance in the form of a stipend is an administrative necessity, the government should provide such assistance on a reimbursement basis to ensure as much as possible that funds are used to cover only eligible expenses. 15.May Fund payments beused for COVID-19 public health emergency recovery planning? Yes. Expenses associated with conducting a recovery planning project or operating a recovery coordination office would be eligible, if the expenses otherwise meet the criteria set forth in section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance. 16.Are expenses associated with contact tracing eligible? Yes, expenses associated with contact tracing are eligible. 17.To what extent may agovernment use Fundpayments to support the operations of private hospitals? Governments may use Fundpayments to support public or private hospitalsto the extent that the costs are necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19public health emergency, but the form such assistance would take may differ. In particular, financial assistance to private hospitals could take the form of a grant or a short-term loan. 18.May payments from the Fund be usedto assist individuals with enrolling in a government benefit programfor those who havebeenlaid off due to COVID-19 and therebylost health insurance? Yes. To the extent that the relevant government official determines that these expenses are necessary and they meet the other requirements set forth in section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance, these expenses are eligible. 19.Mayrecipientsuse Fund payments to facilitate livestock depopulation incurred by producers due to supply chain disruptions? Yes, to the extent these efforts are deemed necessary forpublic health reasons or as a form of economic support as a result of the COVID-19 health emergency. 20.Would providing a consumer grant program to prevent eviction and assist in preventing homelessness be considered an eligible expense? Yes, assuming that the recipient considers the grantsto be a necessary expense incurred due to the COVID-19 public health emergency and the grants meet the other requirements for the use of Fund payments under section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance.As a general matter, providing assistance to recipients to enable them to meet property tax requirements would not be an eligible use of funds, but exceptions maybe made in the case of assistance designed to prevent foreclosures. 4