Farm & Food Workers Relief

While many farm and food business owners were eligible for relief payments during the pandemic, most frontline workers on farms and in meatpacking plants were left out.

In 2020 and 2021 Pasa worked with Farm Aid and private foundations to distribute relief payments to farmers of color who had been impacted by COVID-19. Since then, we have been advocating for federal relief for farmworkers and meatpacking workers, who continued to report to their jobs at the height of the pandemic, when much of the population was ordered to stay home.

Now, Pasa is one of 14 organizations and one tribal entity working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to distribute one-time $600 relief payments through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Program.

We are currently processing applications from eligible frontline farm workers and meatpacking workers from the following 14 states: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia. Our team is also mobilizing for in-person application events across these states in coordination with our program partners.