Participants of a guaranteed income program in Los Angeles County are scheduled to receive their next payment of $1,000 in under two weeks.
The program, titled Breathe, issues payments to 1,000 participants every month, with recipients getting these monthly payments for approximately three years. Recipients acquire these payments on the 15th of each month. Los Angeles County’s Strength Based Community Change agency told the Washington Examiner.
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The program was launched by Los Angeles County with the intent to allow its residents to “breathe” easier, knowing they are more financially secure. The 1,000 recipients were randomly selected from a pool of eligible applicants.
Recipients in this program do not need to have a bank account to receive the monthly payments because they are distributed through debit cards.
Applications for this program opened on March 31, 2022, and closed on April 13, 2022. Payments started being disbursed in June 2022 and will conclude in August 2025.
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An expansion of this program will add 200 more recipients, all of whom will be former foster children who, if selected, will receive monthly $1,000 payments for two years. The application window for this expansion opened on June 20 and will close on July 3.
Additional information about this program is available online.
