Assistance program
Randolph-Sheppard – Financial Relief and Restoration Payments
$20.0 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Education, Department of, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 84.426
- What it does
- To provide financial relief and restoration payments to offset losses to blind vendors that occurred as a result of the global pandemic during calendar year 2020, if those losses were not otherwise compensated, and to support State Business Enterprise Programs by allowing any remaining funds to be used for the purposes set forth in 34 C.F.R. 395.9.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Pursuant to the statute, each State Licensing Agency will receive an amount based on a formula that is in proportion to the number of blind vendors operating a vending facility in such State as compared to the number of blind vendors operating a vending facility in all the States on September 30, 2019.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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