{"id":12637,"date":"2020-04-15T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:19:30","slug":"huge-demand-for-covid-19-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"Huge Demand for COVID-19 Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montgomery County\u2019s COVID-19 assistance application<\/a> went live today around 3 PM and demand was both immediate and heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One applicant who completed the county\u2019s form described the process to me as lasting less than 10 minutes. She encountered no problems and said she was \u201cvery impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another applicant tweeted that he applied roughly 45 minutes after the application went live and was assigned application number 721.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s important because, according to the county\u2019s regulations<\/a>, the first tranche of $10 million will include individual awards of $10,000 each. That implies that only the first qualifying 1,000 applicants will get initial assistance awards. Conceivably, the county could get 1,000 qualifying applications in just a couple hours \u2013 or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One glitch in the rollout involved an email signup shown on an earlier version of the website. (It\u2019s no longer available.) I signed up a couple days ago and received notification of the application at 4:30 PM. By that point, the queue may have filled up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Intense interest in assistance will result in the county\u2019s initial funding being claimed RAPIDLY. Those who waited for email notification or other official notice from the county will no doubt raise process protests if they indeed lose out because of application timing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process has been far from perfect as I have previously written<\/a>. But let\u2019s also acknowledge that even with a perfect process, this was going to be very tough sledding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expect more of the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County\u2019s COVID-19 assistance application went live today around 3 PM and demand was both immediate and heavy. One applicant who completed the county\u2019s form described the process to me as lasting less than 10 minutes. She encountered no problems and said she was \u201cvery impressed.\u201d Another applicant tweeted that he applied … Continue reading Huge Demand for COVID-19 Applications<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,2320,338],"tags":[1545,2321,872,1993,2325],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-covid-19","category-economy","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-covid-19","tag-economic-development","tag-economy","tag-small-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}