Here's How We're Helping People Through COVID-19

covid-19 • May 09, 2020

At Skip, we're dedicated to helping you navigate financial resources, stimulus checks, small business loans, and unemployment insurance. Our sole mission is to help you make sense of the latest COVID-19 information, government assistance programs, and more. Here is a quick guide on some of our latest resources we've had since the beginning of the pandemic.

One of the things we're most proud of is our free resources to help small businesses and individuals, and we are donating 100% of our YouTube revenue to give out grants from $100-$500 grants to our users.

Get Support on the Free Skip App

You can get all of these services on our brand-new Skip App, available on the App Store or Google Play.

Summary of Skip's Free COVID Services

Search all PPP loan recipients by business name or location
Track EIDL grant and loan progress and information
Understand unemployment progress in your state
Get the latest stimulus check distribution information
Receive daily COVID-19 updates, job and volunteer updates
Read our daily blog posts we research and write for you
Ask our support team questions over live chat
We're donating 100% of our YouTube revenue to give out $500 grants.

Details of Skip's Free COVID Services

Track EIDL Loan Progress

The SBA's Economic Injury and Disaster Loan (EIDL) program was created to help small businesses in emergencies like this. It has received millions of applications during this crisis, and policies and procedures have been changing almost daily. Our team keeps you updated on latest policies and what to expect from the SBA, as best we can, based on research and self-reported information.

Here is the Skip loan tracker where you can monitor progress and get information.

The SBA EIDL loan status tracker on Skip showing self-reported approvals

Understand unemployment progress in your state

Close to 1 out of every 4 workers in the US are now unemployed. This is the largest percentage of unemployed since the Great Depression. Each state manages their unemployment insurance program, and many new policies are being made to support independent contractors (PUA) and add supplemental benefits ($600 extra). Our team is continuing to add resources and a self-reported tracker. Below, you can see an example of the unemployment self-reporting tracker for the state of California

Here is the Skip unemployment status tracker for each state

Get the latest federal stimulus information

As part of the CARES Act, the federal government has been distributing up to $1,200 checks to most Americans. The distribution will be ongoing for several more weeks, with discussion of a second round of stimulus checks underway in Congress. Our team is monitoring the discussions in Congress and sharing self-reported stimulus information.

Here is the Skip federal stimulus tracker

Receive daily Covid-19 email updates

Since February, the Skip team has been sending daily emails with the latest news, infection count, government policies, US news and global news related to the Covid-19 pandemic. It's a summary of the most important things you should know. We also send job and volunteer opportunity updates as well.

Here is the Skip Covid-19 news and jobs update list

Read our daily blog posts

We are researching and writing 1-2 new blog posts per day at helloskip.com/blog. Topics range from financial tips to unemployment insights to student loans to new government programs to apply to. We also publish daily videos on our YouTube channel on the latest news.