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AS OF JUNE 24, 2021 <br />support services essential for patient care (e.g., laboratory technicians, medical examiner <br />or morgue staff) as well as employees of public health departments directly engaged in <br />matters related to public health and related supervisory personnel. Human services staff <br />include employees providing or administering social services; public benefits; child <br />welfare services; and child, elder, or family care, as well as others. <br />2.16. May recipients use funds to establish a public jobs program? [6/8] <br />Yes. The Interim Final Rule permits a broad range of services to unemployed or <br />underemployed workers and other individuals that suffered negative economic impacts <br />from the pandemic. That can include public jobs programs, subsidized employment, <br />combined education and on-the-job training programs, or job training to accelerate <br />rehiring or address negative economic or public health impacts experienced due to a <br />worker's occupation or level of training. The broad range of permitted services can also <br />include other employment supports, such as childcare assistance or assistance with <br />transportation to and from a jobsite or interview. <br />The Interim Final Rule includes as an eligible use re -hiring public sector staff up to the <br />government's level of pre -pandemic employment. "Public sector staff" would not <br />include individuals participating in a job training or subsidized employment program <br />administered by the recipient. <br />2.17. The Interim Final Rule states that "assistance or aid to individuals or businesses <br />that did not experience a negative economic impact from the public health <br />emergency would not be an eligible use under this category." Are recipients <br />required to demonstrate that each individual or business experienced a negative <br />economic impact for that individual or business to receive assistance? [6/23] <br />Not necessarily. The Interim Final Rule allows recipients to demonstrate a negative <br />economic impact on a population or group and to provide assistance to households or <br />businesses that fall within that population or group. In such cases, the recipient need only <br />demonstrate that the household or business is within the population or group that <br />experienced a negative economic impact. <br />For assistance to households, the Interim Final Rule states, "In assessing whether a <br />household or population experienced economic harm as a result of the pandemic, a <br />recipient may presume that a household or population that experienced unemployment or <br />increased food or housing insecurity or is low- or moderate -income experienced negative <br />economic impacts resulting from the pandemic." This would allow, for example, an <br />internet access assistance program for all low- or moderate -income households, but <br />would not require the recipient to demonstrate or document that each individual low- or - <br />moderate income household experienced a negative economic impact from the COVID- <br />19 public health emergency apart from being low- or -moderate income. <br />For assistance to small businesses, the Interim Final Rule states that assistance may be <br />provided to small businesses, including loans, grants, in -kind assistance, technical <br />