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