Applications for $250 hazard pay checks for Louisiana's frontline workers start this week - NOLA.com

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Louisiana is set to start taking applications this week for its $250 hazard pay checks for frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The checks will go out to eligible essential workers, ranging from cashiers, bus drivers, sanitation workers, law enforcement, health care workers and more, who performed jobs during the early months of the pandemic.

Louisiana lawmakers gave final legislative approval Monday to send $250 “hazard pay” checks to up to 200,000 frontline workers and came close …

Workers who performed essential activities for at least 200 hours outside of their home from March 22 through May 14 and make $50,000 or less annually are eligible. 

Applications for the payment will be open from Wednesday, July 15, through October 31, as outlined in its legislation, House Bill 70. The checks, however, will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and will only be sent to the first 200,000 people who apply and meet the state's criteria.

The proposal to send checks to workers will use a fraction of the state's federal coronavirus aid — $50 million of more than $1.8 billion available. 

More than $3.6 billion in Economic Impact Payments (EIP) have gone to the state of Louisiana during the coronavirus pandemic, according to num…

It won unanimous approval in both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature before being signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards during the recent special session. 

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