CARES Act allocations
This is a list of federal funds allocated by OFM from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act between 2020 and 2021.
Funds from other federal legislation, like the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, are not included here as they were appropriated directly by the state Legislature.
| Date | Recipient |
Amount |
Purpose | Memo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/30/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $85,000,000 | For the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, residential rent assistance, business assistance grants, and Washington State Recovery Fund Loans for Businesses. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 08/05/2020 | Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction | $8.8 million | Internet access contracts and connectivity needs. | Allocation of federal CARES Act Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund funds to school districts and OSPI | |
| 08/21/2020 | Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction | $8.1 million | For competitive grants to community-based organizations (CBOs) to support student learning in partnership with school districts. | Allocation of federal CARES Act Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund funds | |
| 09/08/2020 | Health Care Authority | $8,172,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Health Care Authority | |
| 12/14/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $8 million | To provide assistance to a greater number of low-income households in Washington who are impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and cannot pay their energy bills. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 09/21/2020 | Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families | $78,090,000 | For child care relief. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families | |
| 10/16/2020 | Office of the Attorney General | $652,000 | To continue to enforce Governor Proclamation 20-19: COVID-19 Moratorium on Evictions. Funding may be used for the cost of retaining contract attorneys, as well as assistant attorney general and other support staff costs. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Office of the Attorney General to enforce eviction moratorium | |
| 08/31/2020 | Dept. of Health (for local health jurisdictions) | $62.15 million | To provide assistance to local health jurisdictions for eligible expenses under the CARES Act. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health for local health jurisdictions | |
| 08/19/2020 | Dept. of Health | $62,777,000 | To assist with expenditures beyond appropriated levels for coronavirus response activities related to testing and contact tracing efforts. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health for testing and contact tracing | |
| 06/29/2020 | Dept. of Children, Youth and Families | $61.4 million | The purpose of this allocation is to provide one-time grants to licensed child care providers and Family, Friend and Neighbor providers for rent, utilities, personnel, food and supplies; to maintain Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program support services for July and August; and for the policy changes in the Working Connections Child Care program to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: waiver of the parent co-pay, automatic reauthorization from part-day to full-day care for school-age children, and changes to reauthorization requirements. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Dept. of Children, Youth and Families | |
| 12/23/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $600,000 | To transition 150 Medicaid clients out of acute care hospitals into appropriate nursing home settings. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Health | $57,392,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $564,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 12/14/2020 | Employment Security Department | $54.63 million | For unemployment insurance benefits for individuals receiving benefits through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program that expires on December 26, 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Employment Security Department | |
| 05/28/2020 | Dept. of Agriculture | $51 million | The purpose of this allocation is to purchase food and food distribution supplies for food banks and other non-profit organizations. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Agriculture | |
| 12/01/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $50 million | For business and nonprofit organization assistance with rent, mortgage, utilities, and other business expenses; historically disadvantaged small business owners; and small business resiliency technical assistance contractors. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce for business and nonprofit assistance | |
| 12/14/2020 | Dept. of Health | $50 million | For case investigation and contact tracing activities. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health | |
| 12/23/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $50 million | For business assistance grants providing for expenses, including (but not limited to) rent, mortgage and utility assistance, and to help prevent permanent closure of businesses. The department will prioritize businesses owned by black, indigenous and people of color. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 08/21/2020 | Western Washington University | $5,456,837 | Support continued operations, and emergency support funds. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Western Washington University | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families | $45,131,000 | For Working Connections Child Care enrollment expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families | |
| 06/29/2020 | Dept. of Health | $45 million | The purpose of this allocation is to pay for disaster response activities including required staffing, increased travel, equipment, and grants to local health jurisdictions and tribes; and to fund testing and contact tracing activities in the state, beginning in Yakima. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health | |
| 08/21/2020 | State Board for Community and Technical Colleges | $44,027,389 | Support continued operations, emergency support funds, and restart professional technical programs. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to State Board for Community and Technical Colleges | |
| 10/16/2020 | Office of the Governor | $401,000 | To provide funds to the Washington State Equity Office for its coronavirus efforts, | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Office of the Governor | |
| 12/14/2020 | Health Care Authority | $40.9 million | For hospital and pediatrician assistance and nursing home transition. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Health Care Authority | |
| 08/17/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $40 million | To create the COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund, in order to assist Washington residents who are unable to access federal stimulus programs due to their immigration status. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to DSHS to create COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund | |
| 11/17/2020 | Dept. of Health | $4,762,500 | To aid the Tacoma/Pierce County local health jurisdiction with eligible expenses. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health for Tacoma-Pierce County local health jurisdictions | |
| 12/23/2020 | Dept. of Health | $4 million | For a behavioral health information campaign to address the sustained and lasting impacts to the emotional and mental health of Washingtonians that are a result of living through an extended disaster. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health | |
| 06/30/2020 | Office of Financial Management | $39,775,000 (CRF) + $225,000 (DRA-Fed) | The purpose of these allocations is to assist state agencies in closing out the 2020 fiscal year by covering the cost of their COVID-19 response activities and to expand the Disaster Cash Assistance Program for individuals who face an emergency and do not have the money to meet their basic needs. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds and Disaster Response Account funds to the Office of Financial Management | |
| 08/21/2020 | Central Washington University | $335,598 | Support continued operations, emergency support funds. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Central Washington University | |
| 12/14/2020 | Office of the Secretary of State | $325,000 | To support TVW, which has experienced an unprecedented number of individuals accessing pandemic-related content. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Office of the Secretary of State | |
| 10/20/2020 | Central Washington University | $312,000 | For technology costs associated with shifting coursework, advising, tutoring, labs and other essential online student services. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Central Washington University for technology costs | |
| 12/14/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $3.48 million | For nursing home transition, long-term care staffing, and personal protective equipment (PPE) fit testing for individual providers. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services | |
| 10/16/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $3,000,000 | To serve American Indian/Alaska Native individuals living in urban areas who have been excluded from federal Coronavirus Relief Funds provided to tribal governments. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 11/02/2020 | Dept. of Health | $3,000,000 | To fund the ongoing media campaign related to prevention of the spread of COVID-19. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Health for COVID-19 media campaign | |
| 08/07/2020 | Dept. of Corrections | $3 million | To assist with expenditures beyond appropriated levels for coronavirus response activities, including equipment and supplies, staff positions and overtime costs, and other coronavirus response resources and supports. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to DOC for COVID-19 response activities | |
| 08/17/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $3 million | To create the Washington COVID-19 Food Production Paid Leave Program, which offers temporary financial protection to our state’s food production system by providing up to 80 hours of paid sick leave when an employee who works for an employer with 500 or more employees is quarantined and/or experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce to create COVID-19 Food Production Paid Leave Program | |
| 05/14/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | $297 million | The purpose of this allocation is to provide assistance to local governments for eligible expenses under the CARES Act. (Listed above and not included in the $1.87 billion.) | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept of Commerce | |
| 06/29/2020 | University of Washington | $25.8 million | The purpose of this allocation is to pay for testing expenditures, including test development, triage and testing sites, and public health partnerships for contact tracing; pay for COVID-related cleaning services; to pay for increased training for epidemiology students to support local virus response; increased PPE; capital upgrades to improve patient safety; required field learning for nursing, dental, and social work students; and virtual training costs for dental and medical students; and to pay for increased training for epidemiology students to support local virus response; increased PPE; capital upgrades to improve patient safety; required field learning for nursing, dental, and social work students; and virtual training costs for dental and medical students. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds and Disaster Response Account funds to the University of Washington | |
| 11/18/2020 | Employment Security Dept. | $25,000,000 | To the COVID-19 Unemployment Account. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Employment Security Department for administrative expenses associated with LWA program | |
| 05/14/2020 | University of Washington | $25 million | The purpose of this allocation is for testing equipment, staff and supplies associated with the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to University of Washington |
