Federal funds distributed for COVID-19 outbreak response
The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, appropriated approximately $2.95 billion to state and local governments in Washington state to help fund the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. These funds include:
- $786 million directly to local governments with populations of 500,000 or more: King, Snohomish, Pierce and Spokane counties, and the city of Seattle.
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$297 million to the state that is being passed on to smaller local governments that did not receive direct distributions under the CARES Act. For details, see:
- Press release: Inslee announces distribution of funding to local governments from federal stimulus package (4/27/20)
- Press release: Local governments poised to receive nearly $300 million in coronavirus relief (5/8/20)
- Press release: Inslee announces additional federal funding to be distributed to local governments (8/31/20)
- Specific allocations (includes additional $125.7M allocated Aug. 31 out of the $1.87 billion below) [pdf]
- Local government coronavirus relief funds (Dept. of Commerce)
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$1.87 billion directly to the state, anticipated to go toward the procurement of PPE, lab equipment, testing supplies, isolation and quarantine sites, staffing of public health and emergency management efforts, and more. As these funds are allocated, they will be listed in the table below the graphic.
List of CARES Act allocations
| Date | Recipient | Amount |
Purpose |
Memo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/26/2020 | Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families | N/A | Extends allocation timeframe through Oct. 31, 2020 to provide support services to ECEAP families with an eligible three- or four-year-old. | Amendment of previous June 29 allocation of funds to Dept. of Children, Youth and Families for ECEAP Summer Support Services. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 12/23/2020 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 10/30/2020 | Office of Financial Management and Dept. of Enterprise Services | $24,000,000 | For computer devices to allow K-12 students to learn remotely. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to OFM and DES for K-12 computers | |
| 12/18/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | -$190,000 ($250,000 reduced to $60,000) | For Consolidated Technology Services (WaTech) and Washington State University to install infrastructure hardware for drive-in WiFi locations at schools and libraries. | Amended allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 10/16/2020 | Dept. of Agriculture | $9,425,000 | For COVID-related food security, including to increase the capacity of the state’s Emergency Food Assistance Program and to purchase food, PPE and supplies for distribution to non-profit food banks and food pantries. Also to create a financial assistance program for small-scale meat processors to increase capacity and address labor shortages due to the pandemic. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Agriculture for COVID-related food security | |
| 12/18/2020 | Dept. of Commerce | -$14,000,000 ($422,900,000 reduced to $408,900,000) | For funding COVID-19 assistance to local governments under interagency agreement #K3134. | Amended allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Commerce | |
| 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 | |
| 10/30/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $13,200,000 | For increased testing in nursing homes per guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which requires testing of all staff and residents every 3-7 days until no new cases are found for 14 days. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services for nursing home testing 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 | |
| 12/23/2020 | Health Care Authority | $13.4 million | For providers with an emphasis on those who treat Medicaid and state-only populations, including: opioid outpatient providers, evaluation and treatment centers and residential treatment facilities, community mental health centers and other licensed behavioral health therapy providers, primary care provides, including internal medicine and family practice providers, and dentists and dental care providers. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Health Care Authority | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $223,143,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020 and for March to June 2020 Aging and Long-Term Support Administration and Development Disability Administration provider rates, and to the Economic Services Administration for coronavirus response activities. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services | |
| 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 | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Ecology | $1,134,000 | 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 Ecology | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Revenue | $1,828,000 | 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 Revenue | |
| 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 Corrections | $17,216,000 | 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 Corrections | |
| 09/08/2020 | Dept. of Natural Resources | $1,126,000 | 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 Natural Resources | |
| 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 | |
| 09/08/2020 | Office of the Attorney General | $1,180,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Office of the Attorney General | |
| 09/08/2020 | Joint Legislative Services Committee | $883,000 | For state General Fund expenses incurred in response to the coronavirus pandemic in FY 2020. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Joint Legislative Services Committee | |
| 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 | Washington State Arts Commission | $2 million | For the Creative Districts program to help stabilize, recover, and preserve arts and culture organizations during the pandemic. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Washington State Arts Commission | |
| 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 | |
| 10/06/2020 | Employment Security Dept. | $209,713 | For the state’s share of the administrative expenses associated with the federal Lost Wages Assistance program for the sixth week of benefits (Aug. 30 – Sept. 5) | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Employment Security Department | |
| 09/18/2020 | Employment Security Dept. | $2,811,926 | For the state’s share of the administrative expenses associated with the federal Lost Wages Assistance program. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Employment Security Department | |
| 12/23/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | $22.6 million | For the Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund, which provides grants to residents who have experienced hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are ineligible for federal stimulus payments and/or unemployment insurance because of their immigration status. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services | |
| 12/23/2020 | Administrative Office of the Courts | $1.5 million | For trial court COVID-19 expenses, including court staff, judges pro tempore, jury selection, court technology and protective personal equipment. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to Administrative Office of the Courts | |
| 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 | |
| 11/18/2020 | University of Washington | +$21,875,000 CRF (federal), -$21,875,000 DRA (state) | For UW Medicine to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, including managing an emergency operations center; procuring personal protective equipment, medical supplies and other equipment; disposing medical waste; cleaning and disinfecting state-owned facilities and equipment; disseminating information to the public; making temporary modifications to health care facilities; and developing triage, intake and testing facilities. | CARES Act allocation and DRA reduction for University of Washington | |
| 10/16/2020 | Dept. of Children, Youth and Families | -$4,500,000 (reduced from $45,131,000 to $40,631,000) | For Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) enrollment expenses incurred and expenditures for supervised visitation, in-home child welfare services, and technology costs in response to the coronavirus pandemic in fiscal year 2020.. | Amended allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Dept. of Children, Youth and Families | |
| 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 | |
| 11/06/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | N/A | In addition to increased rates for residential and in-home providers, the purpose of the Oct. 27 allocation now includes the purchase and storage of personal protective equipment through Dec. 30, 2020. | Correcting purpose of Oct. 27 allocation to DSHS | |
| 11/05/2020 | Dept. of Social and Health Services | N/A | In addition to the purpose in the original allocation, approval for up to $1M for purchase of N95 masks for adult family home providers. | Amendment of previous Oct. 27 allocation of funds to Dept. of Social and Health Services | |
| 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 the Governor | $175,000 (CRF) + $225,000 (DRA-Fed) | Reimbursement of expenditures associated with COVID-19 costs, including communication services, management of our state's health system response and other response resources and supports. | Allocation of federal CARES Act funds to the Office of the Governor |
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