ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The eligibility to apply for an Orange County CARES Act business grant has been expanded once again, this time to allow small home-based businesses and businesses that already received up to $75,000 in federal relief.Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings made the announcement Thursday afternoon during a coronavirus news conference.Previously, home-based businesses could not apply to receive a one-time grant from the county to help offset the negative financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic unless they had more than three employees, not including the owner.
There was also a rule that any business that had already received a loan of more than $50,000 from the federal Paycheck Protection Program could not apply.With the.