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COVID-19 Economic Stimulus
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The acting Treasurer and Tax Office officials are in discussions with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to finalize American Samoa’s implementation plan for the second federally funded Economic Impact Payments (EIP) or stimulus checks of $600 per person, says Gov....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Washington negotiators, propelled by a late-night agreement on the last major obstacle to a COVID-19 economic relief package, said a Sunday agreement is all but inevitable to deliver long-overdue pandemic aid of almost $1 trillion.
“I am very hopeful that we get this done...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa residents and those in other US territories on social security will not be getting their stimulus checks directly from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — like the rest of the US — but instead will receive them next month through their territorial...
Washington, D.C. — Governments, businesses and residents of the five U.S. territories are poised to obtain billions of dollars in assistance through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Most of the assistance for the territories—Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,...

![Gov. Lemanu said that the ASG Commerce Department will be implementing numerous economic development projects under the federal CARES Act funding to include $2.5 million, $2 million revolving fund with the Territorial Bank of American Samoa, the American Samoa Territorial Broadband Strategy and an additional $4.4 million for the super-alia commercial fishing workforce development and economic diversification. [SN file photo] Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lemanu-web_0.jpg?itok=5ajBoXt8)


![American and American Samoa flags at half staff [SN file photo] American and American Samoa flags at half staff outside EOB](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/flags_half_staffweb_3.jpg?itok=SA5ciXtp)