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Federal Workers To Get $1400 Stimulus Checks for 15 Weeks
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which recently passed the House, contains $1400 stimulus checks. But some federal workers will have more than one check. They can get paid time off with up to 15 checks of $1400 each.
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Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund
Neatly tucked within the $1.9 trillion emergency aid package is the $570 million Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund. This budget is exclusive for federal workers who need to stay home to tend to their kids. Thus, this will fund the paid time off for federal workers with children enrolled in schools yet to return to in-classroom instruction. “If the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, if the school of such son or daughter requires or makes optional a virtual learning instruction model or requires or makes optional a hybrid of in-person and virtual learning instruction models, or the child care provider of such son or daughter is unavailable, due to Covid-19 precautions;” according to the guidelines.
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Critics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats. It comes as a time when millions of American parents struggle to manage households between remote work and remote schools. Meanwhile, millions more had to leave their jobs to care for kids stuck at home.
$1400 Stimulus Checks Until September 30
The $570 million funds are available until September 30. Full-time federal employees can use up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30. This means paid leaves up to $35 an hour or $1,400 a week. This means qualified federal workers can get up to $1,400 checks a week for 15 weeks. In addition, part-time and seasonal employees can avail of the fund as well. Their agencies will establish equivalent hours.
Presently, federal employees have up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Workers can use this for birth, foster placement, or adoption of a new child. In addition, the Emergency Federal Employee Leave Fund did not set age limits for kids that are homeschooling. Critics point out that parents of college-aged children can use this for paid time off. In addition, if schools are conducting hybrid or optional virtual learning, parents can still qualify for the fund. However, parents with children enrolled in schools that already opened are ineligible.
Disingenuous Insertion
Asked to explain the legislation, Democrat Representative Carolyn Maloney (NY) said last Friday that the Covid-19 relief legislation expands emergency leave for federal and postal workers. She said the measure means federal workers won't need to “choose between their jobs or caring for loved ones who get infected with coronavirus,” which is an odd thing to say. The provisions for the fund do not mention anything about caring for infected family members.
Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, which is a conservative 501 organization, criticized the measure. “Wow. The BidenBucks bill pays federal employees up to 15 weeks of paid leave at $1400 per week if they have to stay home to virtual school kids,” he said. “You get $1400 once. They get it every week for 15 weeks. Swamp takes care of swamp,” he added.
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This is bull shit!!! very, very unfair to the general public
The worst idea ever. Not fair and how much a week?? and just Federal workers ?? What about the rest of working families and absolutely struggling Senior Citizens. They all have to eat and keep a roof over their heads also. Leaving the rest of the country tossed into the streets with no place to live as they lost their homes. Have to pay those mortgages and property taxes or your homeless. If this is how America is going to be, I am seriously thinking of moving near relatives in British Columbia, Canada. Their not having these problems up there. Never thought I would see the day America was a bad country to live in.
I agree with Nancy
What about American Citizens on Disability that get $1300 a month? I would love more to help me live.
SOOOO IT IS THE PRIVATE SECTOR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS OF PRIVATE SECTOR WORKING FAMILIES SENT TO THE SWAMP THAT WILL BE USED ON A 15 TO 1 BASIS TO HELP SWAMP CREATURES OVER THE ACTUAL PRODUCERS OF THAT MONEY—- A PERFECT TEACHABL MOMENT FOR THE NEED FOR “TERM LIMITS” !!!
This is typical government elitist attitudes, they forget they work for We The People, not the other way around, get the career politicians out, Term Limits
Ducking bullshit I’m against all the stimulus packages Let’s get back to work and make America great again… oh wait They removed him from office because it was blocking their one work government where you and I will be their slave
Fucking bullshit I’m against all the stimulus packages Let’s get back to work and make America great again… oh wait They removed him from office because it was blocking their one work government where you and I will be their slave
I agree with everything everyone said. Our gov needs to be thrown out and go back to them only being in Washington 2 weeks. They have to much time to make all these rules for us, but not themselves. Its sad that even thru the depression, our country was better than it is today.
Take cover it is all downhill from here.Worst of all if allowed to change voting procedures .Normalcy will be gone forever.
You don have to ask people if this is unfair. Even federal workers know this is unfair.
What I would like to see is “the people,” protesting this and other bills that the only thing they do, is divide our society more and more. People need to be in their faces day and night, protesting. and marching in front the Capitol, fences and all. And in front of theWhite House, and the parks around it too. Just like the Marxist-communists from Black Lives Matter and the like did last summer, as an excuse to foster even more racism, but this time from the blacks themselves, against everybody else. Talking about entitled people who accuse others of being entitled. Yeah, right!! Until we start doing the same and noT stop, until all this BS is stopped, “nothing” will be done to correct all this “manure” from the hard left.