(WSPA) – As the coronavirus pandemic continues, many people have reached out about who to contact for more information on things such as filing for unemployment, business resources, and free school meal information.
Below you’ll find a list we’ve compiled of helpful contact information:
DHEC Free Mobile Testing Clinics
- DHEC list of mobile testing clinics
- All of the mobile and popup testing clinics are free.
Pandemic Crisis Services Response Coalition
- covidmentalhealthsupport.org
- Find a helpline where you are: Click here.
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
South Carolina Emergency Management Division
- https://scemd.org/
- 866-246-0133
Child Care Vouchers for Essential Workers
- As part of the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) child care assistance may be available for parents who are considered essential employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In order to qualify, you must be an essential worker, you must need child care so you may continue to report to work, and you must complete a child care application. For the purposes of this child care assistance program, the term “essential services” or “essential staff” is not a matter of which businesses are allowed to remain open or not. This assistance is for workers who are essential with respect to the actual COVID-19 emergency and response. In other words, those engaged in providing essential services (health care workers, first responders, commercial transport, critical state government operations); individuals involved in making sure the public has access to critical services (food, water, gas, utilities, sanitation, medical, child care); and critical infrastructure operations (communications, child care, national guard mobilization, transportation).
- To apply, email christi.jeffcoat@dss.sc.gov. Provide your name and contact info. Please place “Essential Employee Child Care Request” in the subject line.
IRS launches ‘Get My Payment’ tool to track your stimulus payment
- https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment
- Click on “Get My Payment” in the blue bar
Get in touch with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s office with questions on your stimulus payment
- Call 202-224-3121 for the Congressional Switchboard
Economic Impact payments
Unemployment information
- https://www.dew.sc.gov/
- 803.737.2400 – best resources are online though
Prisma Health Virtual Visit
- https://www.prismahealth.org/virtual-visit/ – promo code: COVID19
Business resources including non-essential closure list, clarification, and small business loan information
- https://sccommerce.com/
- 1-800-868-7232
School closure, e-learning, and free school meal information
- https://ed.sc.gov/
- 803-734-8500
South Carolina Department of Revenue
How to report price gouging in SC
Professional licensure and regulation updates
- https://llr.sc.gov/
- 803-896-4300
COVID-19 Resources specific to senior citizens
- https://aging.sc.gov/
- 1-800-868-9095
Governor McMaster’s Executive Orders
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Georgia Department of Public Health
Coronavirus information from The White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FEMA
Duke Energy COVID-19 Updates
Drug and alcohol abuse information, including online recovery resources
- https://www.daodas.sc.gov/
- 803-896-5555
National Suicide Hotline
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
- 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Coronavirus on our website, WSPA.COM
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