Sounds like nothing in the bailout....
for a large group of fixed income poor.
I am a senior with health issues but not enough to be on disability. In 2018 (the tax year they are using in this first release for qualification) I had $0 income due to health and inability to work, luckily I could stay with a relative and got by until 2019 when I got some income by taking early retirement social security part way through the year.
I was able by this income (and not being able to stay any longer with the relative) to get a small apt in a senior complex. I am just barely getting by as my SS payments run just at poverty level. Hard to buy food and household needs by the end of the month even getting help from meals on wheels.
This first bill requires you to have had a small income ($2500 of "qualifying" income, whatever that means) in 2018 to be eligible. Last year I received about $9000 from SS benefits and could really use the bail out funds to stock up on a bit of food (maybe for a month) and pay some bills (including some medical debt not covered by the ACA insurance I am currently getting. I know several of my senior neighbors are in similar situations and could also use the funding.
Anyway, I'll mange either way but just wanted to express my situation and how the first release of the plan potentially won't be helping lots of folks with low fixed incomes. I have read several commits on DU expressing the sentiment that only those who are unemployed because of the virus crisis should get any bail out funds and I agree that they should get support but am asking that everyone think about folks like myself in their considerations.
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