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Nearly 280,000 households have submitted ERAP applications, and the number of payments issued to owners is 81,209 since the application portal opened on June 1, according to the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), the agency in charge of distributing $2.7 billion through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). The majority of the money came from federal pandemic relief packages, and New York State provided some of the funding.