By Dave Basner
Photo: Getty Images
It s been two months since millions of Americans received their third stimulus check, but at $1,400, it wasn t enough to help many of them. Fortunately, the stimulus check wasn t the only type of financial aid available in the American Rescue Plan relief package that became a law in March. For one thing, it also offers parents a way to get monthly checks thanks to the federal child tax credit. Also, homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages are be able to get help due to the Homeowners Assistance Fund in the plan. However, many of those facing financial dilemmas rent their homes, but there is help for them too, and some renters can actually receive up to $25,000.
You could be threatened with JAIL for not spending your stimulus check on rent
Updated: 11:51 ET, Jun 9 2021
YOU could be threatened with jail time for not spending your stimulus check on rent – just as a young single mother in Wisconsin was.
Cassandra Beatty, 22, may face two months in jail for contempt of court after she did not use her stimulus check to pay back her rent despite an eviction moratorium.
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Cassandra Beatty, 22, faces jail over the rent paymentsCredit: Getty
She was told by a judge in Oneida County during an April hearing that she had to hand over the third relief check to her landlord.
By Dave Basner
Photo: Getty Images
It s been two months since millions of Americans received their third stimulus check, but at $1,400, it wasn t enough to help many of them. Fortunately, the stimulus check wasn t the only type of financial aid available in the American Rescue Plan relief package that became a law in March. For one thing, it also offers parents a way to get monthly checks thanks to the federal child tax credit. Also, homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages are be able to get help due to the Homeowners Assistance Fund in the plan. However, many of those facing financial dilemmas rent their homes, but there is help for them too, and some renters can actually receive up to $25,000.
By Dave Basner
Photo: Getty Images
It s been two months since millions of Americans received their third stimulus check, but at $1,400, it wasn t enough to help many of them. Fortunately, the stimulus check wasn t the only type of financial aid available in the American Rescue Plan relief package that became a law in March. For one thing, it also offers parents a way to get monthly checks thanks to the federal child tax credit. Also, homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages are be able to get help due to the Homeowners Assistance Fund in the plan. However, many of those facing financial dilemmas rent their homes, but there is help for them too, and some renters can actually receive up to $25,000.