Deadline to apply for Duval County's Emergency Rental Assistance Program is Monday - WJXT News4JAX

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Program offers Duval County residents rental, inferior assistance

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The deadline for rent and inferior assistance successful Duval County is Monday astatine 5 p.m.

The metropolis of Jacksonville (COJ) is distributing $3 cardinal to families who person been struggling with bills since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The metropolis said since March 2021, it’s already disbursed astir $63 cardinal to astir 15,000 families affected.

Applications for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program opened connected Wednesday, Nov. 30, and volition adjacent connected Monday, Dec. 5 astatine 5 p.m.

To use for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, you indispensable person an income little than 80% of the median income for that area.

The income requirements are arsenic follows:

Household size50% Total AMI80% Total AMI

One person	$29,300	$46,850
Two people	$33,450	$53,550
Three people	$37,650	$60,250
Four people	$41,800	$66,900
Five people	$45,150	$72,300
Six people	$48,500	$77,650
Seven people	$51,850	$83,000
Eight people	$55,200	$88,350

If you qualify, you whitethorn person wealth for up to a combined 12 months of past-due rent and inferior costs.

Chiquita Moore with the COJ neighborhoods section said immoderate families who deed definite income requirements volition beryllium fixed priority.

“Priority volition beryllium fixed to those families that person an income astatine 50% oregon beneath the median country income, person astatine slightest 1 much subordinate of their household that has been unemployed for astatine slightest 90 days oregon person a pending eviction,” Moore said.

Moore besides said it typically takes 14 concern days to process the exertion and determination is nary headdress connected the magnitude of wealth applicants tin receive.

In the past, families person received betwixt $3,500 to $4,000. Moore said erstwhile applicants apply, they volition person updates done email, and she reminded the nationalist that delays tin hap if applications aren’t completed correctly.

“I bash powerfully promote you to wage attraction to the exertion arsenic you’re completing it. Please marque definite that you’re submitting each required documentation. We shouldn’t request thing other additional,” Moore said.

You tin entree the exertion astatine coj.net/erap oregon substance APPLY to 211904 to entree the application.