New Google Government Benefits Schema For COVID-19 Announcements

Google now supports new schema markup for COVID-19 announcements around government benefits. This is in the realm on GovernmentService schema where you can add schema that documents a service provided by a government organization, e.g. food stamps, veterans benefits, etc.

In this case, the markup Google supports is governmentBenefitsInfo specifically these types:

• governmentBenefitsInfo.audience
• governmentBenefitsInfo.audience.name
• governmentBenefitsInfo.name
• governmentBenefitsInfo.provider
• governmentBenefitsInfo.provider.name
• governmentBenefitsInfo.serviceType
• governmentBenefitsInfo.url

Lizzi Harvey from Google announced this on Twitter:

To support COVID-19 announcements about govt benefits, the Google Search dev docs now include the new governmentBenefitsInfo property: https://t.co/xeCMBBXqZy https://t.co/6EIH9WoISJ pic.twitter.com/gFftmCGRGN

— Lizzi Harvey (@LizziHarvey) April 16, 2020

Forum discussion at Twitter.