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Rental aid payments are approved, but big backlog persists July 26 2021 More than 22,000 seek $161 million as Oregon nears halfway point in 60-day grace period for evictions. Community action agencies have made their first payments to landlords under the Oregon emergency rental assistance program. But according to a dashboard maintained by the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services, payments still lag far behind the number of completed applications by tenants and the amount of aid they have requested from the program. As of Monday morning, July 26, community action agencies have approved payments for 1,260 of 22,083 completed applications, about 6%. The total of $7.75 million is barely 5% of the $160.9 million requested so far. ....
Congress starts work on Biden s call for six-month renewal through end of September. As Congress starts work on President Joe Biden s proposals to extend pandemic unemployment benefits, the acting director of the Oregon Employment Department says straightforward extensions that are on the table will be easier to manage. But David Gerstenfeld also said he and counterpart agencies in other states would like as much lead time as possible to prepare for any changes and avoid interruptions in benefit payments. States pay benefits but the U.S. Department of Labor oversees them. The latest extensions, which Congress approved at the end of December, are scheduled to end March 13. ....