$27 Million Federal Grant to Hire Workers to Clean Up Communities Impacted by Hurricane Sandy:
Grant targets New Yorkers who lost employment due to Hurricane Sandy or those Unemployed and Not Receiving Unemployment Benefits. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that New York State has received $27,792,296 in federal Disaster National Emergency Grant (NEG) funds. The grant will be used to hire
workers who lost their jobs as a direct result of Hurricane Sandy in Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester counties to help clean up impacted communities.
*To be eligible, workers must be unemployed as a result of Hurricane Sandy or unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefits or other types of income support.
*Preliminary registration here: https://www.labor.ny.gov/secure/neg/2012-hurricane-sandy-form.asp
For more information call 1-888-4-NYSDOL (1-888-469-7365).
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