CALIFORNIA -
per LA’s Garcetti -
State has waived the one-week waiting period for unemployment. Apply as soon as you’re laid off.
Dept of Ed has waived all interest on student loans for 2 months.
Medicare will provide tele-care free for all medicare people.
HUD properties will suspend all foreclosures/evictions until end of May. But pay your rent if you can.
DASH buses will be free - but leave them for critical workers. (don’t joyride the buses ijits)
Priority is Angelinos, who are the most vulnerable (barf)
All city employees get full benefits and 30 days pay
Starbucks and related will stay open drive-thru near locations where critical workers are working
Sign up to volunteer to provide service to the most vulnerable, locations and phone-trees
Keep checking on your neighbors (DH says throw a rock thru their window to see if they come out the front door haha - j/k)
Those of you that have the means, give, give, give. Garcetti will be calling you. Give him $25M to support child care for health care workers, grants for families who need financial assistance right now, meals for seniors. Coronavirus.lacity.org for more info
self employed and those on 1099ers get nothing when they cant work
I’ll take a lot of heat for saying this, especially with all the sh!t CA is doing and has done wrong.
But I’m thinking CA is setting the standard for the US on how to handle the Chinese Plague.
And they started early when everyone thought they were crazy. Myself included, and I’m a native.
Maybe that’s why they have around 1,600 cases in 40 million people and enough test kits to have begun surveillance testing in several counties.
NY state has over 10,000 cases. Hell, by the time of this writing, NYC alone may have that many...diagnosed.
Almost all the quarantine has been through admonition. They assumed that everyone knew what was essential and what was not. And a lot of their great companies led the way.