{"id":5039,"date":"2021-04-25T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2021-04-25T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T16:57:23","slug":"houseless-americans-are-eligible-for-stimulus-checks-heres-how-they-can-get-their-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"Houseless Americans are eligible for stimulus checks. Here\u2019s how they can get their $1,400."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“this problem of an overcomplicated system that makes it hard for people to access benefits isn\u2019t limited to the stimulus checks. For many government benefits, lots of people who are eligible don\u2019t get it \u2014 often because they have no idea how to sign up.”
…
“the federal government needs to make its assistance programs simpler and more accessible. Some headway was actually made on this issue in the recent stimulus plan \u2014 Biden\u2019s child allowance converted the existing child tax credit into a near-universal benefit sent to eligible recipients every month, making the program both more generous and accessible. But that\u2019s a one-year fix, and there\u2019s much more work to be done on this front.”
…
“it\u2019s not enough to pass programs that help them in principle; the government actually hasto build the infrastructure to get that help into their hands.
For example, the IRS was made responsible for sending out the stimulus checks and publicizing eligibility, but it doesn\u2019t have a budget for public outreach or marketing<\/a>. It could easily have been given one along with the responsibility of sending the checks out.”   
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“Some policy thinkers favor giving every American a federal bank account<\/a>, which would simultaneously solve the problem of underbanking \u2014 where poor people, whoaren\u2019t profitable forthe banking system to seek out as customers, struggle with access to basic financial services \u2014 and the problem of sending out stimulus checks and benefits. In principle, the government could respond to recessions, pandemics, and disasters of every kind by just dropping some money in our Fed Accounts.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2021\/3\/17\/22334042\/stimulus-eligibility-checks-economic-impact-payments-homeless-access<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“this problem of an overcomplicated system that makes it hard for people to access benefits isn\u2019t limited to the stimulus checks. For many government benefits, lots of people who are eligible don\u2019t get it \u2014 often because they have no idea how to sign up.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the federal government needs to make its assistance programs simpler and more accessible. Some headway was actually made on this issue in the recent stimulus plan \u2014 Biden\u2019s child allowance converted the existing child tax credit into a near-universal benefit sent to eligible recipients every month, making the program both more generous and accessible. But that\u2019s a one-year fix, and there\u2019s much more work to be done on this front.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“it\u2019s not enough to pass programs that help them in principle; the government actually has to build the infrastructure to get that help into their hands.<\/p>\n

For example, the IRS was made responsible for sending out the stimulus checks and publicizing eligibility, but it doesn\u2019t have a budget for public outreach or marketing. It could easily have been given one along with the responsibility of sending the checks out.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Some policy thinkers favor giving every American a federal bank account, which would simultaneously solve the problem of underbanking \u2014 where poor people, who aren\u2019t profitable for the banking system to seek out as customers, struggle with access to basic financial services \u2014 and the problem of sending out stimulus checks and benefits. In principle, the government could respond to recessions, pandemics, and disasters of every kind by just dropping some money in our Fed Accounts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,167,411,624,150],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-government","tag-policy","tag-stimulus","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}