relief payments

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Carden doesn’t want taxpayers on the hook for billions more in relief payments, so she proposes using the Defense Production Act as a solution.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

The program, which was announced in March, offers cash back on gas and weekly relief payments to the company’s delivery drivers as the conflict in the Middle East drives up gas prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Certainly, the county’s fight since the mid-1980s — aided by the state Legislature — to freeze general relief payments for the most destitute at $221 a month was no help.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

That year, as pandemic relief payments from the federal government were issued to most Americans, including inmates, the combined value of federal prisoner accounts swelled above $140 million.

From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2023

But federal relief payments put spending money in people’s pockets, labor markets rebounded and the deep downturn was short-lived.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2022