As the threat of another government shutdown looms at the end of this week, the Salt Lake City Council created an emergency loan program on Tuesday that will be available to future furloughed or unpaid federal workers.
The program will allocate $100,000 from the city’s general fund to provide one-time, no interest loans of up to $1500 to eligible workers during a shutdown. The loans will be available to federal employees who are members of households at or below 100 percent of area median income who live or work in Salt Lake City or who work at Salt Lake City International Airport, South Valley Regional Airport, or Tooele Valley Airport
“We’re talking about employees that work for the federal government but that we, as a city government, rely on to do operations together at the airports and in other parts of our community, like our watershed,” Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski told The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday.