Heartland Alliance is a lead partner of Get My Payment Illinois, an initiative helping low-income Illinoisans receive the $1200 CARES Act stimulus payments. Many of the people who need the payment the most – people experiencing homelessness, people with very low incomes, and people with limited technology – will have to take action to receive the payment. Heartland Alliance has seen this directly, working with participants to obtain their payment – see what that months-long process has looked like for three participants: Catherine, Bill, and Mandi.
Get My Payment Illinois is raising awareness about this, and has recently received news coverage in Champaign, the Quad Cities area and Rockford, and launched billboards and media throughout the state.
Help people in your community receive the payment by watching our training for nonprofit organizations and sharing about the stimulus payments using our social media toolkit.
