Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law payment for frontline workers who worked during the COVID-19 outbreak emergency. Though the program was approved in April this year, authorities started accepting applications on June 8. However, those who haven’t yet applied for this coronavirus stimulus check from Minnesota for frontline workers need to hurry. The last date to apply for this stimulus money is July 22.
Walz signed the Frontline Worker Pay program in April to “thank those Minnesotans who worked on the frontlines during the COVID-19 peacetime emergency,” read the state’s online payment portal. The plan allocates $500 million to send $750 (with a cap of $1,500 each) coronavirus stimulus checks from Minnesota for frontline workers.
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It is estimated that about 667,000 frontline workers would be eligible for the $750 bonus checks. The frontline workers eligible for the stimulus money include health care workers, corrections officers, grocery store workers, teachers, meatpackers and more. You can view the full list on the state's website.
To be eligible for the coronavirus stimulus checks from Minnesota, eligible frontline workers would have had to of worked 120 hours between March 15, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Also, eligible workers must not have drawn unemployment benefits for more than 20 weeks.
For individual filers who didn’t directly work with COVID-19 patients, there is an income cap of $85,000 ($185,000 for married couples). The income cap for individual filers who worked with COVID-19 patients is $175,000 or less a year ($350,000 for married households).
As noted above, the state started accepting applications for the Frontline Worker Payments on June 8. Applications will be accepted through July 22, 2022, at 17:00 CT.
How To Apply
Frontline workers can apply for the coronavirus stimulus checks from Minnesota at frontlinepay.mn.gov/submit. For assistance, applicants can contact the support center at 866-333-7633 or [email protected].
To complete the application, frontline workers need to give their name, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number or Individual Tax Identification Number, address, and email address. Also, applicants need to give details of their employer, including the employer's name, address, phone number, email address, dates of relevant employment and job title.
Further, applicants also need to provide their debit card details, or a bank routing number and account number for the direct deposit. The stimulus checks for frontline workers are expected to go out early this fall.
If the application is accepted, applicants will get an email from [email protected]. It is recommended that applicants save this email address to avoid emails from this address going into the junk folder. Applicants will also get a notification if their application is rejected. If rejected, they will have 15 days to appeal the denial.
