For Immediate Release: Tuesday, Dec. Rockville, Md. This special appropriation will provide the initial funding to implement a Montgomery County Guaranteed Income Pilot Program. This may include individuals or families with or without children.
A collaborative planning effort is underway to determine how people will be enrolled into this pilot program. Efforts to address any impact from guaranteed income on other benefits, and the structure for the evaluation of outcomes for participant households are also underway.
As we continue through recovery from COVID, we look forward to helping many Montgomery County residents become more financially stable and improve their quality of life. Guaranteed income is a direct, recurring cash payment to a specific, targeted group of people without strings attached. The purpose of the program is to help alleviate poverty, provide a form of financial stability and give residents the ability to make their own choices to improve their economic position.
The first of its kind in the State of Maryland, this program will help provide economic mobility to our most vulnerable residents and put an end to generational poverty.
Evaluation of the program will be built into the pilot as it is designed. COVID has disproportionately had a negative financial impact on women and people of color. Guaranteed income is expected to be an effective component of helping households recover from the economic impacts of the health crisis. Cecily Thorne , Cecily. Thorne montgomerycountymd.
