The Louisiana Revenue Department says 69,000 checks worth $250 a piece have been sent to essential workers who had to work during the governor’s stay at home order. Secretary Kimberly Robinson says 240-thousand people have applied for the tax rebate since July 15th.
“The largest category has been those persons who work in the grocery and convenience store business, which is about 23 percent. Our smallest category has been the public health epidemiologists, and that includes those persons who work in the medical laboratories and do the testing,” said Robinson.
Home health and healthcare workers are the second biggest category after grocery store workers.
This week the state Revenue Department will mail thousands of letters to people who applied for the $250 hazard paycheck, but there was a problem with their application or submitted disqualifying information.
“For example, they have answered and told us no that they did not work the 200 hours during the requisite period from March to May, but they filled in all of the rest of the information,” said Robinson.
208 applications have been filed on behalf of frontline workers who are ineligible because they are deceased.
They’ve also had some problems verifying workers’ information.
“Either they have started typing in an employer’s name and did not complete it, misspelled an employer’s name and we just can’t figure it out, or they put their own name again for the employer’s name,” said Robinson.
17-million in payments have gone out and the program still has 23-million available dollars, so the department of revenue is still accepting applications at frontlineworkers.la.gov
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