New York to pay up to $15,600 to undocumented workers who didn't get pandemic payouts
New York state lawmakers have authorized one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented workers who did not receive any pandemic payout cash from the government. Citizens have received far less than that, with many not even getting the promised payments of $600, and then $1,400, as promised by the federal government.
According to The New York Times, this is a program that will cost $2.1 billion in state money. It's the largest payout to undocumented workers in the nation.
Those who proposed and back the bill say that undocumented workers have had a hard time during the pandemic because many of them lost work, and were not eligible for the paltry payments given by the federal government.
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