SBA PPP funds are currently exhausted—what’s next? The Paycheck Protection Program is poised to get an additional $300 billion, but it’s not the only option to keep some small businesses afloat.
You can apply for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) today in Massachusetts and a number of other states in the US. PUA provides up to 39 weeks of unemployment benefits to individuals who are unable to work because of a COVID-19-related reason but are not eligible for regular or extended unemployment benefits.
In this video, I’ll provide a walkthrough of if/how you qualify as a self-employed person, freelancer, and small business.
Please don’t go anywhere – we’ll soon have a new series of Zoom and livestream related videos releasing on this channel. We are taking a quick break to make sure our audience is aware of these benefits during this very challenging time globally.
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Fei WuFei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.
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