December 11, 2020
The Escambia County Family CARES Grant program application and verification process has officially closed, but not all of the approved applicants have a check in hand just yet.
In its four-day application window that began September 25, the county received a higher than anticipated volume of applications with 9,558 households submitting information. The county approved 5,500 of those applicants for the $3,000 grants.
As of Thursday, the Escambia County Clerk and Comptroller’s Office had released over 4,100 of the 5,500 payments. The remainder of the checks will be disbursed by the end of the year.
Applicants may check their
If the status is listed as “complete,” the application has been summited to the Clerk and Comptroller’s office for final review and payment.