Clayton County sets second round for CARES Act funds

Clayton County leaders are encouraging small businesses and non-profits who didn’t receive financial help from an earlier disbursement of CARES Act funding to try again.

Clayton has set aside $1 million of its Coronavirus Aide Relief and Economic Security Act aide specifically for small businesses and non-profit organizations. It failed to disperse all of that funding, and is now seeking more applications.

The county hopes to have all the funds distributed by the end of January.

The deadline for spending CARES funds was Dec. 31, but the new stimulus bill signed Sunday by President Donald Trump extends that deadline by one year.

Applications should be made to claytoncares.claytoncountyga.gov now through Jan. 8. Those who received assistance in the previous round of applications are ineligible, the county said.

The appropriations are part of billions of dollars the federal government has provided to help small businesses that have struggled with keeping their doors open and paying employees because of shutdowns and customer loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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