UBI Payments: How many states are currently sending checks?
While another stimulus package is unlikely to pass at the federal level, some states still provide UBI payments , or guaranteed income, to their citizens.
Yang won neither the presidency nor the mayorship in New York, but many cities are also giving guaranteed income .
The concept is the same: recurring monthly payments for a set period of time for eligible people. No strings attached.
Funding for the guaranteed income can come from the government or from private sources.
During the pandemic, aid was extended
During the height of the pandemic, various Covid-19 relief packages were passed, including stimulus checks for Americans at the federal level.
However, those were not implemented to be repeated.
Instead, they served the purpose of helping needy citizens stimulate the economy by giving them more money to spend during a financial downturn.
While another stimulus package is unlikely to pass at the federal level, some states still provide UBI , or guaranteed income, to their citizens.
The cities that deliver UBI are the following:
- Alaska, Alaska
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Chicago, Illinois
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Compton, California
- Cook County, Illinois
- Durham, North Carolina
- Gainsville, Floria
- Healdsburg, California
- Hudson, New York
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Long Beach, California
- Los Angeles California
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Lynn, Massachusetts
- Marin County, California
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mountain View, California
- Newark, NJ
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- New York City, New York
- Oakland, California
- Paterson, NJ
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Richmond, Virginia
- Rochester, New York
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Shreveport, Louisiana
- South San Francisco, California
- Tacoma, Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Hollywood, California
Children can also benefit
In addition, there are families with children under 13 years of age who receive the amount of 8 thousand dollars a year. For transportation payments, babysitters, before and after school programs, as well as camps and childcare.
Previously, families received $6,000 for two or more children, but thanks to the US Bailout Act provision , signed into law by President Joe Biden , the credits were expanded.