I guess there is some covid program where employers get $$$.
The lady that does the farm's 1099/W2 paperwork asked my mom if they had signed up.
Mom said no, we heard about it but weren't really affected in paying our one employee(me)....
Lady was quite surprised, ran the numbers and said well, you would have been eligible for $26,000 in relief.
Crazy the chit that is going on.
There was PPP loans that were forgiven if you used the money to pay employees and kept their benefits instead of putting them in unemployment. A lot of businesses legitimately used it because our governor shut the state down for a couple months. A lot of people abused it and kept the money even though they were open and operating. Our local paper filed a freedom of information request and published what everyone took. Lots of pissed off taxpayers when they saw grocery stores and PPE manufacturers on the list.
