American Rescue Plan | The White House (2024)

FAQs

Is the American Rescue Plan still in effect in 2024? ›

A total of $130.2 billion will be provided to cities and counties to use through December 31, 2024. The program will be administered by the U.S. Treasury Department.

For taxpayers who file jointly with their spouse and only one individual has a valid SSN, the spouse with a valid SSN will receive up to a $1,400 third payment and up to $1,400 for each qualifying dependent claimed on the 2020 tax return.

The plan included $350 billion in emergency funding for state, local, territorial and tribal governments, known as the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.

Lower health insurance premiums and provide 100% federal COBRA subsidy. The American Rescue Plan will lower or eliminate health insurance premiums for millions of lower- and middle-income families enrolled in health insurance marketplaces. This will help well over a million uninsured Americans gain coverage.

The government does not offer free money or grants to people for personal needs.

Is there a deadline to report or spend the funds? SLFRF funding must be obligated by December 31, 2024 and jurisdictions have until December 31, 2026 to fully expend their funds.

The Treasury Department, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rapidly sent out three rounds of direct relief payments during the COVID-19 crisis, and payments from the third round continue to be disbursed to Americans.

Basically, yes. The idea of financial relief for high gas prices was floated by Newsom in March. As the proposal developed it was sometimes referred to as a gas rebate or refund, and sometimes referred to as an inflation relief payment.

To apply: Register in Grants.gov • Download the corresponding Certificate and Agreement and Program Profile and complete offline and submit through grants.gov. Complete the Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424).

Is the American emergency fund real? ›

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a new $1 billion Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund to assist needy families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. States, the District of Columbia, tribes operating a tribal TANF program, and all five U.S. territories are eligible to receive funds.

Project Dashboard. The American Rescue Plan provides $1.9 billion in funding to LA County to build an equitable economic recovery from the devastating economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. You can view the approved programs, performance measures, and projected outcomes at LA County's Dashboard below.

Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law. This historic legislation was designed to enable all Americans to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. Under the American Rescue Plan, EDA was allocated $3 billion in supplemental funding to meet the urgent needs of American communities.

Immediately reversed planned layoffs in cities and states across the country – and helped drive a recovery of 1.3 million state and local jobs, recovering all of the state and local jobs lost in roughly one-third the time it took to recover state and local jobs after the Great Recession.

The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act, delivers $350 billion to state, territorial, local, and Tribal governments across the country to support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency.

The funding obligation deadline is December 31, 2024. The ARPA SLFRF expenditures deadline is December 31, 2026.

To apply: Register in Grants.gov • Download the corresponding Certificate and Agreement and Program Profile and complete offline and submit through grants.gov. Complete the Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424).

The American Rescue Plan makes it much easier for federal workers diagnosed with COVID-19 to establish coverage under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act. To establish a COVID-19 claim, you simply need to establish that you are a covered employee.