While You Wait For a $1,400 Stimulus Check, House COVID Relief Bill Will Pay Federal Workers to Stay Home And Get Paid $1,400 Per Week

MenRec ^ | 02/27/21 | Rusty

[rustyweiss74]

Forbes is reporting that the House version of a $1.9 trillion COVID relief package contains “an extra perk for federal workers” that involves paid time off to stay at home with children not taking part in in-classroom instruction.

The “perk” tucked inside a bill dubbed the “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” is defined by critics as “a personal bailout for bureaucrats.”

While most of us wait for a one-time $1,400 stimulus payment as we struggle with employment and tending to kids which we now teach from home, federal workers dealing with the same conditions will be privy to a $570 million family leave account exclusively for them.

Eligible to dip into that account are those federal employees “unable to work” because they are caring for children not physically in school full time “due to Covid-19 precautions.”

Like the rest of us.

[Larry Lucido]

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[NautiNurse]

Outrageous!

[xkaydet65]

1,400 a week works out to $72,000 a year. That’s GS 12 pay. Why would a GS 5 want to work ? And there are a lot more GS5s. I’d expect the federal bureaucracy to be quite a bit understaffed for the coming months.

[sauropod]

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[Scrambler Bob]

New federal minimum is GS-15, right?

[PIF]

its 600 hours up to sept 30, 2021... not all year so its $21,000 to stay home w kids