Undocumented workers are the ones benefiting from the $2,000 similar to UBI Payments from this program.
: $2,000 Left Behind Workers Funds For Undocumented Workers (PHOTO: Marca)
Left Behind Workers Fund Offers Undocumented Immigrants UBI Payments
In Denver, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a way to have an experimental program to support undocumented workers that led to permanent unemployment assistance for undocumented workers in the city. Moreover, The pandemic-initiated fund was called the Left Behind Workers Fund, which was launched by Mayor Michael B. Hancock in Denver, thanks to the use of $1.73 million dollars to help families who lost their source of income due to COVID-19.
This led to Colorado launching a wage replacement program for all their unemployed residents regardless of their immigration status, called the Benefit Recovery Fund, a program offering cash payments that will be run by AidKit, a third-party platform.
Colorado employers have spent nearly $188 million in unemployment insurance premiums on behalf of Colorado workers without work approval, yet these workers are ineligible for unemployment assistance when they lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
Who Can Qualify For The Undocumented worker’s Program?
According to Marca undocumented immigrants in Colorado are eligible to receive this help, but similar programs are also in place in states like New York and Pennsylvania, according to estimates by the Center of American Progress with the initiative intended by its advocates to become national a more than 5 million workers in the United States are undocumented, which means they’re around 4.4 percent of the total US workforce.
