Applications for the Cook Area Commitment Ensured Pay Pilot Open Thursday, October 6 (Cook District, IL) — Today, President Toni Preckwinkle reminded inhabitants that the Cook Region Commitment Ensured Pay Pilot will be opening its application entryway not long from now. Qualified Cook Province occupants will actually want to apply for the pilot starting Thursday, October 6 by visiting promisepilot.cookcountyil.gov. The application entryway will stay open until October 21. There is no advantage to applying right on time; after the application window closes, last members will be chosen indiscriminately.
Following quite a while of difficult work, Cook Region is pleased to send off the application entrance for the biggest freely financed ensured pay pilot in American history,” President Preckwinkle said. “We gauge that almost 36% of Cook Area occupants will be qualified to partake, and I empower every individual who meets the prerequisites to apply.”
Supported by the American Salvage Plan Act (ARPA), the $42 million Commitment Pilot will send regularly scheduled installments of $500 to 3,250 inhabitants for a considerable length of time. Candidates should be no less than 18 years old, an inhabitant of Cook District, and have a family pay at or underneath 250% of the government destitution level.
The pilot is available to Cook District families paying little heed to movement status, and candidates won’t be approached to uncover their citizenship status. Families that are as of now partaking in one more ensured pay pilot, for example, the Chicago Strong People group Pilot or Evanston’s Dependable Pay Pilot, are not qualified to apply. Cook Region representatives are additionally ineligible for the program.
Cook Area has contracted with the non-benefit association GiveDirectly and their innovation accomplice AidKit to run the application entry. The application should be finished through PC, tablet, or cell phone with admittance to the web. Candidates will likewise have to have their own email as well as cell phone number to apply and be reached by GiveDirectly for follow up.
“GiveDirectly will probably make a simple, low-boundary process so every qualified Cook Province inhabitant can apply to be important for this notable drive. We are eager to cooperate with AidKit, our tech stage accomplice, to make a consistent and positive experience for all candidates,” said Sarah Moran, GiveDirectly US Nation Chief.
People needing help to finish the application, or who need admittance to a PC, tablet, or cell phone, will actually want to access face to face and virtual help during the application window in areas across the District. Data about help choices can be found at www.engagecookcounty.com/guarantee. Support is accessible in English, Spanish, French, Clean, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Tagalog and Vietnamese.
Cook District will hold a public online class for occupants keen on applying for the Commitment Pilot on October 11, 2022 at 5pm CT. Intrigued occupants can join the online class by visiting bit.ly/PromisePilot. The Region likewise as of late facilitated an online course for local gatherings and associations on how best to help occupants in applying for this open door. View the recording and show slides here.
Installments to program members are supposed to start December 2022. For more data about the Cook District Commitment Ensured Pay Pilot if it’s not too much trouble, visit www.engagecookcounty.com/guarantee.
