Cofounder and director of the institute of human virology at the university of Maryland School of medicine. Vaccinesses potential and treatment for covid19. Washington journal for april 29. The Treasury Department reports 158 billion in stimulus payments have been paid out in the first three weeks. Host the Department Reports secret service, survivor disability nonfilers should have their payments direct deposited by today. In our next hour, we want to hear from you. If you either requested or received federal or state financial help because of the coronavirus pandemic. Whether that be stimulus payment, unemployment assistance, help with rent, or help for your Small Business. Heres your chance to let us know about your experience in this next hour. If you requested aid, 2027488,000 is the number to call. If you received aid, 2028001 is the number to call. You can also section us at 2027488003. Tweet us cspanwj. Post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Stimulus checks as they are known is probably the most direct payment that most americans will receive. Their some eligible requirements because of that according to the federal government. The i. R. S. Saying that if you are a single u. S. Resident, have an adjusted gross income of less than 99,000. Also if you file as head of household and earn less than 146,500. And if you file jointly without children and earn less than 198,000 that he your eligible requirements for that. It goes on to say there will be 1,200 payments to individuals with that adjusted gross income and 2,400 to married couples joining filing jointly. Thats one route that some people have looked to as far as Financial Assistance during this time. Unemployment assistance is another route, too. The pandemic emergency Unemployment Compensation thats provided according to sources saying that it would provide an additional 13 weeks of state Unemployment Benefits. Also it would be available after someone exhausts all their regular state u. I. Benefits f you go to the wall street journal this morning its those who are laid off and getting assistance the subject of a story by eric under the headline half of workers get more paid laid off saying the package of coronavirus stimulus Laws Congress passed and President Trump signed in march included a 6 behind boost to weekly Unemployment Benefits through july 31. Thats added to state benefits over the next coming weeks, the average weekly payment to a laid off worker should rise to about 978 from the nearly 378 the Labor Department said was paid on average late last year. Also adding that Labor Department statistics show half of fulltime workers earn 9357 or less each week. That 957 or less each week. A couple routes there as far as possible payments. Maybe you looked or requested to receive one of those. Maybe help for your Small Business as well. We want to hear about your experience in this first hour. If you requested it, thats the number to call. Call us at 2027488,000. And received it, 2027488001. Post on our social media sites. Some have done that. Lisa off of facebook when it comes to this question. Sought out, yes. And received, no. Ann saying the whole house, his household has. Adding we got wrecked pretty hard by this. Laura off facebook saying she applied for the portauprince on day one. I have heard Paycheck Protection Program on day one. I am a Small Business with a handful of employees. I employ hundreds of contractors. Not one business i know of has received anything from ppp. The president referenced the administrations efforts in helping out businesses during this time. At the same time the president talked about his use of the defense production act. Heres the president from yesterday. You are going to sign an executive order today about Meat Packaging plants. It affects liability for them. What efforts or measures are you looking at for liability for other industries and businesses. President trump we havent been talked, hasnt been asked on other industries yet, but with the meatpacking and with the transportation we have had difficulty where they are having a liability thats really unfair to them. We are going to be doing that fairly soon. Its getting drawn up, i should be signing that over the next or sofmente which frees up the entire system. I fully understand it. You can see that whole presentation on cspan. Org. We start with mark seeing hes saved aid good morning. Caller good morning. Im on essential employee because i work for the post office. Im a letter carrier. I received the federal stimulus check a couple days ago. Im already working. I received a paycheck already from work. So im not in dire straits. I used my paycheck my stimulus check from the federal government for was to pay my mortgage off. Imagine if i didnt have my job, i would be worried about not being able to pay off the mortgage. I had 1200 from the federal government. Put it right towards the mortgage. First thing i did. Thats all i can do. Host if i may ask is that 1200 cover the whole mortgage . Did you have anything left over . I put it towards the principal. Host what do you think about recent statements made about the Postal Service in light of the coronavirus by the administration . Caller think should bail owl the post office. Some people have to receive mail, i suppose. Im sure its probably waste in terms of management or overtime, perhaps. I think the post office is required in this country. Yeah. Host warren, massachusetts. Keith who has requested it. Hi. Caller hi there. How you doing. Host fine. Caller im just curious. Im just shy of retirement age. Im dust abled with quite a few medical issues, including im a cancer survivor. My son is my fulltime caregiver. Neither one of us has heard anything about any stimulus checks. He filed simple return that he needed to file. I just havent heard anything from them. I get Social Security on the site, i. R. S. Site it says if you receive Social Security it will come that way. I just havent heard anything either way from anybody. Host i know in some cases some Social Security recipients will receive money as of today. Thats being reported. You have gone to the website, the i. R. S. Website to check that out. What was your experience with that . Caller no Information Available. Host how many times have you gone to the site . Im curious. Caller a couple times a week. Like i said, the information was put in there i already had my direct deposit information there. Social security, they have that. And my son, he doesnt get paid, he just takes care of me. Brings me to doctors and treatments. He tried to get one just because hes not making any money. Hes just taking care of me. Nothing there, either. He did the simple return. Did everything that was approved we were supposed to do, then it says no Information Available for about a month now. Host if you go to the i. R. S. Gov website, we showed you a bit ago, the application that you are talking about, the get my payment site, it has some information there that youll need payment status or payment type. The information about your tax filings. And then adding the reasons you may not may get a quote status not available saying that get my payment will return payment status not available if the application doesnt have your data and if you are not eligible for a payment. Theres other information there at that website at i. R. S. Gov. Rose city michigan asked aid, hello. Caller hi. Host youre on. Go ahead. Caller sorry. I was trying to i applied for unemployment and was given ineligible for some reason. Host you mean you applied for federal assistance for unemployment . Caller correct. That was included with applying for the state of michigan. Host what kind of work did you do . Were you laid off because of coronavirus . Caller correct. Host if i may ask what kind of work do you do . Caller construction. Host ok. Whats your situation like if you dont get that assistance if i may ask . Caller ill be without it. Unfortunately. I dont have any money. Running out of money. Host joe in michigan telling of his experience. You heard about the last caller talking about the i. R. S. Website issues. The Los Angeles Times posted this story in the last couple days, you can find it on their website, saying getting a quote payment status not available error when you are trying to learn the status, try this one weird trick that works. Enter your street address in all caps. Yes, the i. R. S. Website had a big update this week its possible the site just poured over your information and let you log in without having to shout at it. Type in your street address the normal way, if that doesnt work, dont despair have found intererk there street address in the capital letters was the key to getting in and entering their bang account information to have their stimulus funds deposited electronically instead of waiting for a check in the mail. If you want to find out more about that and what that reporter learned, the Los Angeles Times. In bristol, tennessee. George says hes requested aid. Good. Good morning. Caller yes. Im wondering when people on Social Security is going to get their stimulus checks. They say that you dont have to do anything in order to get it. I have been checking every day and havent gotten anything yet. Host when you say check, you mean checking the website for information . Caller well, i checked that, too. According to what they say you shouldnt have to. They automatically is there some other way of doing that . Host the i. R. S. Gov is the best website to do that. As far as Social Security recipients, the Washington Post having this storery, this is from yesterdays post saying if you are waiting on your stimulus money heres an estimate of when more payments will be delivered. Social security survivor and disability nonfilers will see Economic Impact payments in their Bank Accounts by today. According to a treasury spokeswoman. S. S. I. Nonfilers should begin seeing payments in early may. And veteran benefit recipients should begin recovering their stimulus payment by early may 2 according to the Treasury Department. Terry off facebook adding our one employee who filed on 38 27 hasnt received a dime. We have yet to receive stimulus. Our government is the most blatant display of inefficiency ill ever witness. They failed the american people. We are way past who is to blame at this point. Lets hear from curtis in missouri. Go ahead. Caller how you doing today . Host finement caller im a Small Business and we requested the Small Business assistance, and we got an email said that it was approved and that they would deposit it to our account, but we never seen anything yet. We are a small trucking company. And i mean we are being hit hard. We have a total of seven trucks. With the seven trucks i got seven guys driving. They actually havent had any assistance to help them. I have had to take the rates down because rates on these we got trucks sitting, that usually pay us 2 a mile is paying 70 cents a mile. We cant even get loans because everybodys fighting over. Looking to move loads across this country. We are not getting any type of assistance. Host the assistance you applied for, thats the Paycheck Protection Program you are talking about . Caller the 10,000 Small Business loan that they was assisting us with. Host youre saying that you were approved but havent seen the money yet . Caller no. We havent seen anything. We was approved. They send us an email saying we were approved for the 10,000, but we havent received anything. We were going to go ahead and file for the portauprince Paycheck Protection Program as well. We have to figure out how to do that and see what website to go on to do that. My guys, they took a 25 cents crent paycheck to keep working. Because we cant afford i would have to shut down in order to pay them guys 50 cent a mile like we usually do. We cant afford it with the way the rates are. Rates are jumping down for 70 cent a mile. Host as far as going to lenders, if you dont get this money, are there other lenders that help out Trucking Industries that perhaps you can go to . Or is the lifelines pretty much exhausted . Caller pretty much exhausted for the lifeline because we went through u. S. Banks before. Our initial loan that weve got. They helped us from the start. And i just we are trying to go back and get more money from them just puts us in bigger debt. Host curtis talking about his trucking business there in missouri. Carl from new jersey texted us this morning saying that hes on Social Security. My payment came direct deposit at 4 00 this morning. James also seeking aid, hes in pittsburgh. James, good morning. Hello. Caller how you doing. Host fine. Youre on. Aller hold on a second. Sorry about that. Host go ahead. Caller my question is, i have been on disability since 1979. And they cut they increase for s. S. I. I get s. S. I. And s. S. A. , and im supposed to get the status check of 1200 one, too. I havent received any. Their question is my brothers a truck driver, too. He hasnt received his, neither. He files taxes. Host you have checked as of this morning . We have had at least one person on Social Security saying they got their payment as of today. It was direct deposited. Caller so is mine. Im what you calls flair account. I said i called yesterday and said im probably not going to getny. I dont understand why they are saying that. Host who is the they . Caller the company that i got my card from. Host they told you that you werent going to get any assistance and couldnt tell you why. Caller right. Host what other avenues do you have if you dont get this assistance . Caller so i make a month, im lucky if i make 900 a month. My mortgage here is 550. My wife, she has a parttime job, a truck payment is 500 a month. Plus basic cable. Plus gas and electric and storage. How you supposed to live off of that . Host james in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, telling about his experience on the larger scope of business lending, the Washington Post this morning profiles the federal reserves efforts, 500 500 billion in corporate aid. Talking about the liabilities with offering no requirements. This is jeff and peter reporting that unlike other portions of relief for american businesses, this aid will be exempt from rules passed by congress requiring recipients to receive limit dividend executive compensation and stock buybacks and does not direct the companies to maintain certain employment levels. The corporate debt purchases by the fed stand in stark contrast with other portions of federal aid for u. S. Businesses that come with requirements to protect jobs or limit spending. The Paycheck Protection Program, which offers 659 billion for Small Businesses, requires companies to certify that the money will be used to, quote, retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage payments, lease payments, or utility payments. But main Street Program offering up to 600 billion to midsized businesses forbids companies from issuing dividends or places limits on executive compensation according to a term sheet issued by the fed. Lets go to everyyet washington. Good morning. Aller good morning. I just got an express card, and go on to the website and im having moved around all over rying to find information. I have disabilities. Am i going to be able to get the 1,200 in that express . How is it going to be . I tried to update it and when i go to that website im being tossed everywhere. Host you received no assistance. Have you tried to call anybody from the i. R. S. Or Treasury Department . Caller no. Because i dont know who i need to call because i was told to go to that website. Host thats sheri talking, many talking about their website experiences from the i. R. S. Gov. We showed you that website and the information you need to find out the status if youll get a stimulus payment or not. Philadelphia, pennsylvania. This is devin, says he received it. Hello. Caller good morning. Yes. I did receive mine, but im telling you i used to be a government employee. I applied for unemployment, and they are saying that pennsylvania is not under the extended benefit period. And they sent me a rejection letter. I talked to many people and they said they got the same thing. Im saying how do you expect people to live without unemployment . I did get the stimulus, but many of the businesspeople im talking to, they are getting hit hard. Especially, sad to say, the minority of businesses because they dont have access to the capital and they dont have access to the funds that they need. Host what type of work did you do for the federal government . Caller i worked for the local government. Code and administration. Licensing, regulating construction workers and things like that. Host did you get laid off because of the pandemic . Caller no. We were downsizing and i took a layoff. When i did i tried to go for the unemployment and they said under the extended benefit period its not currently active. It seen even says that on their website and i have been trying to call the state capital. I tried to call the Governors Office to see if he can look into that. This is a critical time. Host devin in philadelphia, pennsylvania. This is steve in brooklyn off of our text saying they received he received the 1200 in stimulus. He adds the feds