Heroes Stimulus Hazard Pay

I actually think hazard pay is a necessity in a time like this said banks who said she supports a plan by senate democrats to give her a 13 dollar per hour raise until the end of the year.

Heroes stimulus hazard pay. How much hazard pay would essential workers receive. In may the house passed the heroes act costing over 3 trillion. The projected price tag of the covid 19 hazard pay is 200 billion.

Nearly four months ago the house passed the heroes act as its version of a fourth coronavirus stimulus package and included within it 200 billion in hazard pay funds for essential workers as. The house has already passed a 200 billion heroes fund for essential workers back in may when it passed the heroes act which includes hazard pay for essential workers and a second 1 200. This is a second stimulus.

This hazard pay money is called the heroes. This is a 3 trillion stimulus package the heroes act and it specifically sets aside 200 billion for essential workers in the form of hazard pay. Essential workers would get either 10 000 or 5 000 in hazard pay if the provision passes as it currently stands in the heroes act.

The democrats backed proposal promises funds for many healthcare programs including hazard pay for healthcare workers who were not covered under previous stimulus packages. A 200 billion heroes fund promised care providers 13 per hour above their regular pay. In three successive covid 19 stimulus bills hazard pay for frontline workers got shot down.

Is the 10000 hazard pay for essential workers proposed in the heroes act 2020 a measure considered for the next stimulus package.