FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) provides tax
credits worth up to $32,220 to independent workers
June 15, 2023 — Sacramento, CA — Most beauty and barber professionals, booth
renters, salon suite owners, independent stylists, and estheticians are allowing
thousands of federal relief dollars to slip by them, unclaimed. The Professional Beauty
Federation wants to make sure the beauty industry obtains its fair share of this last
remaining federal government opportunity, given how hard Covid lockdowns and
restrictions hit the beauty industry.
PBF is pleased to present the only self-guided, online portal to assist self-employed
individuals recover income disrupted by the pandemic through FFCRA tax credits.
Whether these disruptions happened in 2020 or 2021 or both, then they may be eligible
for up to $32,220 under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. And FFCRA
money can be used without restrictions, unlike prior PPP funds or other federal loans.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) is a federal law passed in the US
in 2020 to help address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on families and
businesses. Qualified self-employed beauty and barbering taxpayers could receive sick
leave credits up to $5,110 in each 2020 and 2021 if they were sick for any reason during
the pandemic eligibility periods. Self-employed pros could also receive family leave
credits worth up to $10,000 in both 2020 and 2021 if they had to care for someone, like a
child stuck at home during those dreaded days of online schooling. This is a 100{6b2fa08d5993bc7e76ffaca7a3a295e96a3274ffb0576a302ceddffe26335ebd}
refundable credit, to which the vast majority of hair, skin, and nail professionals are not
even aware they are legally entitled.
Fred Jones, PBF Legal Counsel and Advocate stated, “All of our beauty and barber
professionals felt the financial pinch during the pandemic, and this is our chance as an
association to help the industry get some much-needed relief. We’ve been helping
employee-based salon owners for the past year apply and receive millions of dollars with
ERC, and now we have an opportunity to help the self-employed — the true heart and
soul of our beloved industry. Even if an independent beauty or barber worker received
PPP, they still likely qualify. And if a self-employed professional qualifies, the money is
theirs, free and clear with no need to apply for forgiveness.”
The Professional Beauty Federation has invested considerable resources to launch a
completely automated, self-guided online submission process. Their goal is to make sure
every self-employed professional in our industry maximizes their legally entitled share
before the program ends. And to go the extra mile for beauty and barbering families, the
PBF will allow the self-employed/1099 spouse or significant other of beauty and barbering
pros to use the portal, even if they don’t work in the industry.
PBF has partnered once again with Adesso Capital, a successful partnership that helped
over 10,000 beauty professionals receive PPP forgivable relief funds and thousands of
employee-based salon owners received ERC credits. Together, the PBF has injected
over $30 million dollars back into the beauty industry in the past two years, successfully
guiding beauty professionals through the sometimes complicated government
applications.
For more information on how to apply, please go to www.ProBeautyRelief.com/ffcra.
About PBF
The PBFC is a nonprofit trade association that was formed in 1999 to give a voice to the
over 600,000 licensed barbering/beauty professionals in California to raise the
professionalism of the beauty and barbering industry. While their mission has never
changed, their scope of representation has expanded in recent years, as they blazed the reopening trail for all Personal Care professionals through two successive federal lawsuits
against the California Governor, a coordinated, statewide #OpenSalonsNow grassroots
campaign and most recently with their nationwide PPP and ERC assistance programs.
Earlier this year PBF launched a new credit card merchant services solution called
ProBeautyPay that offers the lowest credit card processing fees along with free
equipment. Last month PBF rolled out its healthcare solution for professionals called
ProBeautyHealth, a free telehealth membership that allows professionals to receive
immediate access to doctors on their phone for most ailments and avoid costly urgent
care co-pays. For more information please visit www.beautyfederation.org