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Support Resources for Restaurant Employees After Hurricane Helene
WNC Tip It Forward: AIR and ArtsAVL teamed up with GBX Group to provide emergency relief grants to restaurant workers and artists impacted by Hurricane Helene. The grant provides $500 relief stipends to food service workers 18 years or older in the Asheville Metro Area. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis based on available funds.
To apply for grant funding, please visit this link.
To donate to the fund, please visit this link.
The NC Restaurant & Lodging Association announced the NC Hospitality Worker Relief Fund. The NC Hospitality Workers Relief Fund is managed through the NCRLA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that has provided over $1.5 million in financial assistance to NC restaurant and hotel employees. As WNC communities and families have been devastated by Hurricane Helene, 100% of funds donated will go directly to support NC hospitality workers impacted by the storm. Employees may apply here, please share with your team.
Unemployment Insurance: On Oct. 17, Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order increasing the maximum weekly benefit to $600 for those who are in the impacted area. This order also extends the number of weeks people can qualify for from 12 to 26 weeks.
The Division of Employment Security estimates that it may take between two and three weeks for impacted individuals to see the impact in their weekly benefit checks. The benefits for eligible claimants will be retroactive to September 29, 2024 and adjustment payments will be issued for benefit weeks going back to that date.
Unemployment Insurance: Restaurant workers who have been laid off due to Hurricane Helene need to apply for NC unemployment. If you are eligible for “regular” state unemployment, you will exhaust those benefits before Disaster Unemployment kicks in.
If you are not eligible for regular unemployment insurance, you may be able to get disaster unemployment insurance. Click here for more info.
FEMA support is available for Hurricane Helene survivors in Western North Carolina.
There are four ways you can apply for FEMA disaster assistance:
- Fill out a DisasterAssistance.gov application online.
- Apply using the FEMA app. Download the free app from your smart phone’s app store.
- Apply by phone at 1-800-621-3362.
Eblen Charities can assist employees with housing costs and medical and gas needs. Visit this link for more info.
Southern Smoke Foundation is providing support for F&B Workers, visit this link to apply.
Giving Kitchen may be able to support restaurant workers who lost their home or experienced damage due to flooding. They also have a network of support resources.
North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NCAFCC), a statewide network of 69 independent, community-based clinics that provide free primary care and other health-care services to working-age adults who have no health insurance of any kind and meet income eligibility requirements.
Campaign for Southern Equality’s Resource Center for LGBTQ+ neighbors is open 11am-5pm on Thursdays at 20 Oak Street. They’ll have free health and wellness supplies, coffee and music. All are welcome.
