Posted on 03/02/2021 1:13:46 PM PST by gattaca
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.
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.
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.
Watch the Bloomberg Quicktake video reporting that the Senate may take up Biden’s $1.9 Trillion stimulus bill on Wednesday:
Federal workers, who faced no down sizing, no lay offs, no pay cuts... poor them...
So federal workers, who were never out of work at all, are going to get more “stimulus” money than most Americans?
I don’t do nothing . . . do I qualify for those federal worker checks?
i now self-identify as a federal worker
Postal workers who never lost a minute of work?
In my area mail delivery has gone to hell. I get other people’s mail and often don’t get my own. I recently had a car title sent certified. I heard the doorbell from my bedroom and by the time I reached the door the mail man was gone.
He left a paper saying he would try again tomorrow. I waited by the door this time and he never showed. Hopefully I can get it at the post office tomorrow.
And I didn’t even get national concealed carry reciprocity when the GOP controlled the entire federal government. Tell me again why I vote for Republicans.
Federal worker, after 15 of the $1,400 stimulus checks.
Reporter: How do you feel now?
Worker (wild-eyed, red faced, shaking with excitement:
“Stimulated, baby. I am stimulated. Whoooooooeee!”
Go To HELL, you lazy government workers! You are tagged as rats!!
That's only one qualification. You have to be a team member.
Same here. I recently moved and had to obtain a new driver’s license and voter registration. Both were put in my neighbor’s mailbox.
Well, I used to calculate how large in kilotons one needed to cure the DC problem. Given how many of them are up there, I am on my way to using Bilatons.
Oh. Dang. I was already counting my deposits!
Their idea of public service involves the public servicing their so-called servants.
So far we’ve gotten $2000. If we are lucky we’ll get another $1400. They got all of that, plus they are getting an additional $21,000. But only if they have kids and some other conditions.
Just how many mentions will this get in tonight MSM newscasts ??? ZERO
Deep state will get theirs ... they are IN MY PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT.
Do you remember that mild snowstorm a couple of years back that shutdown just a small section of the PA Turnpike for just a couple of days?
Fortunately, our people opened our school gyms and other public buildings to shelter the kids on their way home from the pro-life march. And the press was forced to cover how civilized and hospitable we deplorables were until the traffic got moving again. It was fun seeing their little presstitutes scurrying around like rats trying to find a negative story about either the kids on the busses or us locals . . . with zero success.
We are so close to DC but such a different world.
Very few full time postal workers left that would receive benefit. Most now day are PSE. They get no benefits at all, and are not in the union.
Does the recipient sign a ‘D’ voting pledge to get these ‘benefits’? Or is that a given?
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