COVID-19 Information and Resources
ACDC’s Boston office is now open for appointments only.
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Resources
Asian Community Emergency Relief Fund (ACERF)
UPDATE March 19, 2021: Thank you for your generous support! Donations made through March 22nd, will be distributed in April. Donations received after March 22nd will be collectively decided by the partner organizations on how to best directly support the community.
Eviction Moratorium & Rental Assistance
If you or someone you know needs help with rental or mortgage payments, ACDC is here to help and can provide support in Cantonese or Mandarin. Please call our Cantonese language hotline at 857-449-7131 or our Mandarin language hotline at 857-449-7132.
For more information on eviction protections or to receive assistance in other languages, click on the announcements below provided by Greater Boston Legal Services.
Malden residents, click here to review the eviction moratorium enforcement in the City of Malden.
Unemployment Assistance
Chinese Progressive Association, Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Greater Boston Legal Services and other organizations are helping Chinese-speaking and Vietnamese-speaking people apply for unemployment benefits and access other resources. Please contact them if you need help filling out the online application.
UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE
The MA Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) may now pay unemployment benefits if a worker is quarantined due to an order by a civil authority or medical professional or leaves employment due to reasonable risk of exposure or infection or to care for a family member and does not intend to or is not allowed to return to work. The worker need not provide medical documentation and need only be available for work when and as able.
To assist individuals who cannot work due to the impact of COVID‐19, the administration is filing emergency legislation that will allow new claims to be paid more quickly by waiving the one week waiting period for unemployment benefits.
Emergency regulations are also being filed that will allow people impacted by COVID‐19 to collect unemployment if their workplace is shut down and expects to reopen in four or fewer weeks. The following conditions apply:
Workers must remain in contact with their employer during the shutdown.
Workers must be available for any work their employer may have for them that they are able to do.
An employer may request to extend the period of the covered shut‐down to eight weeks, and workers will remain eligible for the longer period under the same conditions described above.
If necessary, DUA may extend these time periods for workers and employers.
To apply for unemployment benefits, people should go to: https://uionline.detma.org/Claimant/Core/Login.ASPX
失業援助
根據麻州失業援助署指引，如果僱員被民間機構或者醫療專業人士要求隔離，或者由於有暴露風險或因照顧家人有感染風險而不允許參與工作的，都可以申請失業援助金。僱員無需提供醫療文件證明，只需要在可以工作的時候參與工作即可。
為了協助因為COVID-19新冠肺炎而無法工作的僱員，政府正在尋求緊急立法條例，加快支付失業援助金，減免需要等待一周的等待時間。
緊急立法條例也允許由於COVID-19新冠肺炎而關閉工作地點，並期待在4週或更短時間內重開的受影響的僱員支付失業援助金，適用於以下情況：
僱員在工作地點關閉期間必須與僱主保持聯繫.
僱員必須能參與僱主可能提供的任何工作.
僱主可能要求延長工作地點關閉時間至8週，僱員要維持上述情況至更長時間.
如有特殊情況，失業援助署可能延長這一緊急立法條例的實施時間，並適用於僱主和僱員.
如需要申請失業援助金，請前往該網站：https://uionline.detma.org/Claimant/Core/Login.ASPX
