Will New Stimulus Package Include Hazard Pay

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Will new stimulus package include hazard pay. 12 ways the biden stimulus package could put or keep money in your pocket president biden s american rescue plan includes several proposals to assist people financially harmed by the pandemic. More aid for the unemployed the hungry and those facing eviction. And though republican and democrat senators agree that congress should pass some version of hazard pay for essential workers nothing has yet to be announced in the new stimulus package the senate.

Lawmakers struck a nearly 900 billion covid 19 stimulus deal sunday that would deliver badly needed aid to millions. New stimulus package would include hazard pay for critical workers. Plan includes 160bn in vaccination funds and 1tn in relief to families including 1 400 stimulus checks joe biden has unveiled a 1 9tn coronavirus relief proposal aimed at urgently combating.

While much of the discussion on the next coronavirus relief package has centered on stimulus checks renewing the federal unemployment benefits and extending a federal moratorium on evictions hazard pay for. Here s what is in the package. Hazard pay for essential workers isn t a top priority in congress.

House pushes for hazard pay senate stalls the heroes act proposed by the house as its second stimulus proposal would allocate 200 billion for hazard pay the hazard pay would be set aside in a. The size of the benefit would be reduced for. Updated january 15 2021 the coronavirus stimulus package.

The package does not include hazard pay for essential workers. The bill does not extend stimulus checks to adult dependents.