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Chicago Resiliency Fund 2.0 offers aid to domestic workers, undocumented Chicagoans

The fund aims to send one-time payments of $500 to Chicagoans who didn’t receive federal COVID stimulus checks.

By Sarah Stark
   

Federal stimulus checks provided a lifeline to many folks earlier in the pandemic, but many didn’t qualify or weren’t able to access payments. The Chicago Resiliency Fund 2.0 aims to distribute one-time $500 payments to people who may have missed out on prior COVID stimulus money.

Reset talks to two nonprofit workers in charge of coordinating fund distribution.

GUESTS: Katie Durrah, senior director of programs at Heartland Alliance

Kathryn Socha, director of asset building programs at Heartland Alliance

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