The state of New York will include in its new budgets a fund of $ 2.1 billion of help to undocumented workers affected due to the crisis of the pandemic and that they have not received public support, a lawsuit raised by numerous state civil groups.
This amount is included in the agreement reached by the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, and legislators.
The NGO Make the Road, which requested an amount of $ 3.5 billion to help the “excluded workers”, thanked the legislators who presented this initiative to the Legislative Assembly.
“Let’s deliver it to the New Yorkers who have been called essential pbut what have been excluded of all kinds of help”, aseguró Make The Road.
Undocumented persons who can show that pthey lost their jobs, that their income they saw diminished for labo they lost the breadwinner for death or disability due to covid-19 they can receive up to $ 15,000 andn financial support.
To apply for aid they must demonstrate their identity with passport of your country of origin, driver’s license or identification of the city known as IDNYC. The website excludedworkersny.org. It will indicate the steps to follow to apply once the program has the dates defined to start the applications.
The immigrants who do not have the above documents can present a certificate of marriage or birth from a foreign country, local media reported.
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The Federal Government has also pledged to send a 12,600 general fund million dollars and an additional one for educational and health programs.
“Thanks to the state’s strong fiscal management and relentless effort to secure the federal support that the pandemic demanded, we not only balanced our budget, but we are also making historic investments to reimagine, rebuild and renew New York after the worst economic crisisay de health in the last century“Cuomo said, quoted in the statement.
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