For Bartender’s who have been effected by COVID-19 : FUND FOR YOU

FULL BARTENDER EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM  ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

In order to qualify for grant assistance from the Bartender Emergency Assistance Program, the recipient must satisfy all of the following requirements:

  1. Be a Bartender or the spouse or child of a Bartender. The Bartender Emergency Assistance Program defines a “Bartender” as an individual employed in serving beverages or otherwise engaged in the production, promotion or distribution of alcoholic beverages. An individual is considered “employed” as a Bartender if, for not less than one year prior to the application, the individual performed services as a Bartender on a regular full- or part-time basis or, if the catastrophic event or emergency hardship giving rise to the application prevents the individual from performing such services, for not less than one year prior to the event or hardship the individual performed services as a Bartender on a regular full- or part-time basis.

   2. Experience a catastrophic event or emergency hardship that is:

  • Identifiable and described in detail in the application;
  • Damaging to the person or property (e.g., loss of life, health, or property);
  • Sudden and precipitous rather than gradual or progressive;
  • Unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unintended, or unplanned; and
  • Unusual and not normally occurring in the ordinary course of day-to-day living.

   3. Lack the necessities of life, including financial, physical, mental, or emotional well being as a result of the catastrophic event or emergency                hardship. 

   4.  Provide tangible documentation of the catastrophic event or emergency hardship.

Are you a Restaurant worker who had hours cut / laid off?

The Restaurant Opportunities Centers Unites is has a relief fund to provide financial assistance to restaurant workers impacted by the coronavirus.

The application process is on a temporary pause due to high volume of applications that have been submitted, but you can check in everyday for an update to apply. The link –> https://rocunited.org/relief/application/

PPD will be checking in everyday so you can check back here as well for the status: