Updated Public Safety and Public Health Payroll Reimbursement Program

Public Safety and Public Health Payroll
Reimbursement Program (PSPHPR)

Application Round Now Open Until August 7, 2020.

Program Description

The program was created to reimburse for eligible public safety and public health payroll expenditures under section 5001 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Public Law 116-136. Qualified applicants that received a direct allocation under section 5001 of the CARES Act are limited in the amount of funds they can request (see qualified applicants below).

There may potentially be two rounds, depending on available funding:

The first round is for the payroll expenditures incurred during April and May 2020.
The second round is for the payroll expenditures incurred during April through July 2020.
- Note: The second round will only occur if funds are available after the first round closes.

Eligible Expenditures

Round One
- April and May 2020 public safety and public health payroll expenditures that have not or will not be reimbursed under the First Responder Hazard Pay Premiums (FRHPPP) Program or by any other federal funds.
Round Two
- Treasury will announce if funds are available.
- April through July 2020 public safety and public health payroll expenditures that have not or will not be reimbursed under the First Responder Hazard Pay Premiums (FRHPPP) Program or by any other federal funds.

Program Details

Eligible Applicants
- Cities
  - Detroit is limited to requesting a reimbursement for the amount the city has refunded (with nonfederal funds) a local unit of government, local governmental authority, or intergovernmental agency which the city has contracted with to provide public safety or public health services. The amount the city could apply for would be limited to the eligible contracted payroll costs refunded.
- Villages
- Townships
- Counties
  - Kent, Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne are limited to requesting a reimbursement for the amount the county has refunded (with nonfederal funds) a local unit of government, local governmental authority, or intergovernmental agency which the county has contracted with to provide public safety or public health services. The amount the county could apply for would be limited to the eligible contracted payroll costs refunded.
- A local government authority, intergovernmental agency, or organization that employs local public safety or local public health personnel and that was established by a city, village, township, county, or group thereof for the primary purpose of providing public safety or public health services.

Available Program Amount
- $200,000,000

Application Period
- Round One
  - Due on or before August 7, 2020
- Round Two
  - Treasury will announce if one is available

Distributions
- Round One
  - September 18 (no later than)
- Round Two
  - November 7 (no later than

Reporting Requirements

Each eligible applicant that applies for a subaward must register with the Federal System for Award Management (SAM). Applicants that apply after July 26, 2020, must register in the SAM system prior to sending an application to the Michigan Department of Treasury.
Application Packet with each page initialed and dated along with all the required signatures.