PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Eligible adults in Portland were able to apply for assistance through a random selection process thanks to PDX Assist for 3 hours Thursday afternoon.

PDX Assist opened up relief applications in order to help those struggling due to the ongoing effects of the pandemic. The fund will provide $500 prepaid Visa debit cards to help impacted households pay for expenditures such as food, household supplies, medicine and/or health supplies, rent, non-city utility payments, transportation costs, dependent care and other household expenses.

Applications were open to the public for only a few hours, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday. Officials said more than 101,000 applications were filed, although there are duplicates among those.

To be eligible, applicants must be over the age of 18, be a Portland resident, have experienced a loss of income or elevated health risk due to COVID-19 related factors and have a household income at or below 80% of Area Median Income (AMI) — that’s just over $73,000 for a family of 4.

A total of 4000 applications were accepted through PDXAssist.com.

A statement on their website after the deadline said: “The application form is now closed. If you need assistance with rental support, please contact 211.”

“We want to make sure, on one hand, we get it to people with the highest need, those households struggling the most directly affected by COVID including being laid off in their jobs, and do it as quickly as possible,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a press conference Monday morning.