{"id":5755,"date":"2020-05-27T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2020-05-27T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:29:59","slug":"department-of-the-treasury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/05\/27\/department-of-the-treasury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of the Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of the Treasury. Photo: ,Mattia Panciroli<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

With tribes experiencing difficulties in submitting additional data<\/a> for the $8 billion in coronavirus relief promised to them two months ago, the Department of the Treasury is giving them more time to do so.<\/p>\n

“The deadline for electronic submissions to be accepted has been extended until 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, May 29, 2020,” Treasury states on its CARES Act website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deadline had been 11:59:59pm Alaska time on May 26. But a vast majority tribes, for various reasons, hadn’t yet submitted employment and expenditure information with just hours before the window was due to close, according to a declaration submitted in federal court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Several Tribes have reported the following difficulties in completing these submissions: (a) a storm in Alaska over the weekend resulted in widespread power outages throughout the State; and (b) the closure of offices as a result of COVID-19 has made it difficult for Tribes to access financial statements and tax forms that are saved on office computers,” Daniel Kowalski, the Counselor to Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin<\/a>, told a federal judge on May 26.<\/p>\n

“Tribes have reported these difficulties via email,” Kowalski said.<\/p>\n

The CARES Act authorized an $8 billion coronavirus relief fund for tribal governments. The law required Treasury to distribute the money “not less than 30 days” after its enactment but that deadline went without action.<\/p>\n

On May 5, Treasury announced an initial distribution<\/a> of $4.8 billion, or 60 percent of the fund. The payments were based on population data<\/a> which tribes had not known about, as they were asked to submit enrollment data back in April.<\/p>\n

Late in the evening on May 20, Treasury asked tribes to submit additional employment and expenditure information<\/a>, even though they had provided similar data last month. The department intends to use the information to determine how to distribute the remaining $3.2 billion of the coronavirus relief fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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