Wed, 06/30/2021 - 8:29pm -- tim
Vermont Business Magazine Following a suit filed by Vermont Legal Aid regarding the termination of the hotel housing program run and paid for by the Vermont Agency of Human Resources, the court has approved a plan presented by Legal Aid and HHS to extend to program for two more weeks for eligible people with certain disabilities. It extends the program for those people by two weeks. For all people who must leave the program, which accounts for more than 600 people, HHS is offering $2,500 plus another $8,000 in housing assistance.
The hotel program was greatly expanded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure housing for homeless or others who fit the eligibility rules. The state is ending the expanded program July 1, though some people will continue to be accommodated. Legal Aid sued the state to continue the program.