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The program was implemented during the COVID19 pandemic.  Governor Tate Reeves today announced that Mississippi is ending a federal program in the state that incentivizes people to stay out of the workforce by offering up to 15 months of free rent and utility bill payments. At the direction of G

TUPELO • Eight-month-old Pete Ekiss doesn’t know a world without masks. When he was born in July, only his parents, Sara and Chris Ekiss, were in the room. Their families first met him through the windows of the hospital. Instead of showing off their new son, the new parents settled for masked visits with his grandparents or meetings at the door. “It was very different than what you imagine your first childbirth to be,” Sara Ekiss said. Whether new to child-rearing or lon...

Emergency rental assistance program to be launched in March Its called RAMP, which stands for Rental Assistance For Mississippians Program. (Source: WAFB) By Sharie Nicole | February 26, 2021 at 1:40 PM CST - Updated February 27 at 9:03 AM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - There’s $200 million in HUD rental assistance available to Mississippians in need of emergency pandemic relief. And it kicks off in March. Governor Tate Reeves has assigned the Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC) as the agency ...

Success! Youre on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldnt process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… Repeat eviction judgments to be commonplace across the state, analysis shows. Under a federal eviction moratorium and as a deadly virus continued to rage, landlords in Jackson sued even more tenants each day than they did in previous years. Many Mississippi families, especially those who were suffering b...