{"id":4424,"date":"2020-05-06T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:18:23","slug":"sault-ste-marie-tribe-of-chippewa-indians-michigan-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/05\/06\/sault-ste-marie-tribe-of-chippewa-indians-michigan-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aaron Payment serves as chairperson of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and as vice president of the National Congress of American Indians. Photo by Kevin Abourezk<\/p><\/div>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\nMay 6, 2020<\/p>\n

Sault Tribe receives CARES Act funding<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. \u2014 The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians today received $37.2 million from the Coronavirus Relief Fund. Indian tribes were reserved $8 billion in the CARES Act that allocated money to the relief fund. Tribes across the country are receiving payments totaling $4.8 billion according to government-to-government consultations between the tribes and the federal government, and formulas developed by the US Treasury.<\/p>\n

According to the CARES Act language, tribes may use the money for “necessary” expenses caused by the public health emergency from March 1 to Dec. 30, 2020. The tribe may use the funds for COVID-19 related needs such as COVID-19 testing, emergency medical response, telemedicine, communications, acquisition and distribution of medical and protective supplies for personnel working with the public as well as quarantine costs. Also allowed are expenses for COVID-19 related public health measures like food delivery, distance learning for school closures, telework, COVID-19 sick leave and health precautions, sanitizing, social distancing and caring for homeless populations, for some examples.<\/p>\n

The $37.2 million COVID-19 funding will substantially help the tribe, which at is presently expecting to pay over $17 million in wages and lose at least $27 million in revenue. The Sault Tribe Board of Directors dedicated the balance of its $5.5 million in Contract Health Support Cost settlement to tribal wages, but payroll costs will overtake that funding before the closure is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has received $37.2 million from the Coronavirus Relief Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,89],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","tag-michigan","tag-soo-tribe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}