WASHINGTON — The U.S. Labor Department will send $8.3 million to Kentucky to support disaster relief employment in the aftermath of the Dec. 10 tornado outbreak.
The department announced on Wednesday that the allocation would be the first increment of up to $25 million to assist workers who have been dislocated by the wreckage of the series of storms.
The federal dislocated worker grants are available to those in the eight counties where FEMA has declared a disaster emergency. Those are Caldwell, Fulton, Graves, Hopkins, Marshall, Muhlenberg, Taylor and Warren.
Those eligible for assistance include individuals who are temporarily or permanently laid off as a result of the disaster, long-term unemployed workers as defined by the state and self-employed individuals who became unemployed or significantly underemployed as a result of the disaster.
