Pilot Program: To Begin Its Monthly Payments In Three Counties Next Month

A Pilot Program that studies the effect of providing a monthly basic income on reducing poverty will resume its first payments next month.

Pilot Program: Will Begin Next Month Their Monthly Payments In Three Counties

A Pilot Program is a program that studies the effect of providing some basic monthly income to reduce poverty and money issues to a group of families who struggles with their financial situation every day.

The program is called the UPlift, it will give 100 eligible people in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties poor families worth 500 dollars each month. This program has stopped but good thing it will resume their monthly benefits next month. Michael Berger, Pilot Program project coordinator that the benefactors have no restrictions on how they will use the benefits given, their goal is to give out money to those eligible families to send help it doesn’t matter how they will use or spend the money.

Des Moines University will lead the study to determine whether the benefits will meet the family’s needs.

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Pilot Program: Starts Their Monthly Payments In Three Counties Next Month

Health chairman Rachelle Reimer says said that they will be conducting a survey after sex month with the benefactors who didn’t receive and receive the money already. If the needs were meet or the benefits were enough for them to survive the crisis. According to them, the UpLift participants or benefactors are only selected over 6000 applicants of the program. Payments will start sending out next month May 15, the funds that were used where came from federal pandemic relief money, as well as local private and nonprofit foundations.

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