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Essential workers in Connecticut eligible for up to $1,000 for working during pandemic
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HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB/Grey Information) – A program was established by the Connecticut legislature to offer monetary reduction to important staff who labored by way of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Important staff could also be eligible for as much as a $1,000 cost from the Premium Pay Program, in accordance with a report from WFSB.
This system is a fund permitted by the Connecticut Common Meeting that has made $30 million in help accessible to assist the vital workforce that helped preserve the state operational through the pandemic.
The Connecticut comptroller’s workplace mentioned it would oversee this system with the advantages to be paid out in early 2023.
Staff who can reply “sure” to the questions under are eligible to use for this system:
• I used to be employed as an important employee in Connecticut between March 10, 2020 and Might 7, 2022
• I used to be not in a position to earn a living from home
• I used to be not employed by a federal, state or municipal authorities company
• I earned $149,999 or much less
The utmost cost is $1,000 for many who made lower than $100,000 a yr. It’s $800 if the employee earned between $100,000 and $109,999, and $600 for many who earned between $110,000 and $119,999. Those that labored part-time might be eligible for $500.
The quantity decreases relying on the employee’s earnings.
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention deemed jobs comparable to grocery retailer staff, nursing house staff and different well being care supplier jobs as important.
Cops and firefighters, nonetheless, aren’t eligible as a result of they’re authorities staff.
Another states, together with Massachusetts, have put an analogous program in place.
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Police are investigating after finding human remains at a construction site in Greenwich last week.
The police department said that during a normal workday at a construction site in northern Greenwich, workers found what appeared to be human remains after soil was disturbed by an excavator.
The remains were carefully collected from the scene, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner took custody of the bones, police said.
Investigators said the remains appear to be of a considerable age.
Connecticut State Police is also assisting with the investigation.
A motorcyclist in Hebron has died after a crash along Burnt Hill Road and Cone Road, state police said.
The Connecticut State Police responded to the accident at approximately 5:25 p.m. after a dirt bike struck a rocky embankment.
According to authorities, the operator of the motorcycle failed to negotiate an “S” shaped curves in the roadway before loosing control.
The victim was originally transported via LifeStar to the hospital with reported serious injuries, authorities said.
The driver was then later pronounced dead at Marlborough Middlesex Clinic, state police said.
Anyone who may have witnessed this accident, or who may have information is asked to contact the Connecticut State Police.
A driver was rescued from a crash in Wolcott early Saturday morning and serious injuries have been reported.
Officers received a report of an accident on Beach Road around 3 a.m. Once there, police said they found a vehicle had hit a tree.
An occupant of the home where the vehicle crashed pulled the driver out of the car before the car caught on fire, according to police.
The driver was transported to the hospital to be treated for very serious injuries.
No other occupants were in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash remains under investigation by the Naugatuck Valley Regional Collision Reconstruction Team.
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