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San Mateo County exceeds $250 million in relief funds by COVID-19

Aid funds by COVID-19
American currency, hundred dollars, fifty dollars, twenty dollars, ten dollars, one dollar and some change photographed on Monday, March 8, 2021 in Pittsburg,Calif. Currency, banks, retail services. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)

By Eli Walsh. Bay City News

San Mateo County has surpassed $250 million in approved COVID-19 pandemic relief, approximately half of which has been used to support delinquent rent and housing payments.

The county said this week it has approved about $259 million in funding since the pandemic began in March 2020 and has spent or allocated about $230 million of that amount.

Almost all of that funding, $197.3 million, came from