Emergency Rental Assistance Program
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Renters who are eligible for the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) will not ‘handle’ the funds, if their applications are approved, but instead the money goes directly to the landlords, according to the Department of Commerce (DOC) presentation at last...

![Part of the large crowd of residents who attended last Friday’s Commerce Department tenant-workshop to explain the new federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) at the Malaeimi Stake Center hall of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [photo: FS] Large crowd at one of the DOC sponsored rental assistance workshop](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doc_n_renters_6516.jpg?itok=7OzF0jju)