United Way

For the past 100 years, the United Way has been busy helping people and families improve their financial situations and their lives.

For the past 100 years, the United Way has been busy helping people and families improve their financial situations and their lives.

ALICE — an acronym for Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed — is a metric that shows how much more goes into what qualifies as income burdened than the federal poverty line.

The SC Stay Plus program is still open, but in places like Barnwell, Allendale, and Bamberg counties, residents often don't know this. Worse, they might know but have limited connectivity to apply. A new initiative is looking to fix that.

This story is part of continuing coverage of South Carolina's looming eviction crisis as the CDC moratorium winds down.

On a given day, the United Way of Greenville County used to field 50, maybe 60 calls from residents needing help. When the pandemic and its economic…