Hazard Pay Stimulus Package
The projected price tag of the covid 19 hazard pay is 200.
Hazard pay stimulus package. While the republicans have so far refused to include hazard pay for essential workers in any additional stimulus package. What s in the new 900 billion stimulus package. The house will vote this week on another coronavirus relief stimulus package that includes 200 billion in hazard pay for essential workers.
The package does not include hazard pay for essential workers. The house successfully passed a fourth stimulus relief package yesterday. Democrats have proposed another stimulus package which includes hazard pay for critical workers.
Right now hazard pay for essential workers should be considered and non negotiable resource that congressional leaders must approve in any additional stimulus package that passes congress. The package includes 1 trillion for states and cities to provide hazard pay for critical workers. As congress considers more financial aid for coronavirus 3 trillion stimulus package known as the heroes act one provision is providing hazard pay to workers whose occupations have put them on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 100 000 americans.
House pushes for hazard pay senate stalls. Hazard pay for essential workers isn t a top priority in congress. The 3 trillion heroes act contains a second round of 1 200 stimulus checks 200 billion in hazard pay for essential.
Whatever stimulus package the senate puts forward it must include hazard pay for essential workers and the house should refuse to agree to any stimulus package that removes the hazard pay. The original heroes act included 190 billion in hazard pay for for front line health care workers and others in risky jobs. The bill does not extend stimulus checks to adult dependents.
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. It would have provided an incremental.