Get The Facts: The American Rescue Plan

  • The $1,400 stimulus payments for those in need represents as much as $8,800 this year for an average family of four with children under six-years-old and a combined household income under $150,000.

  • President Biden’s plan also includes $20 billion to surge vaccine distribution.

  • As part of the American Rescue Plan, $17.3 billion will flow to the State of Florida.

  • $27 billion in rental assistance that will keep a roof over the heads of millions of families

  • $170 billion to help schools open safely and get our kids back in the classroom as soon as possible

  • Extension of unemployment benefits with a $300 weekly supplement through Labor Day (September 6, 2021), preventing benefits from expiring on March 31, 2021

  • Expansion of the child tax credit, allowing qualifying families to offset, for the 2021 tax year, $3,000 per child up to age 17 and $3,600 per child under age 6 for 2021, up to a maximum of $8,000 in annual child care costs. This benefit will for the first time be in the form of monthly payments, and will lift 50% of children out of poverty.

  • $25 billion in relief for small and mid-sized restaurants