FYI and the best of the season.
73
Eric
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Subject: NYSARA Monday Alert Update
Please send this out to our UUP retiree email list as the last announcement for
2020, Hoping we have none like this year again!!
Thanks
Charlie
Here is the final ARA Monday alert for 2020 with articles for us seniors that
include; Happy holiday wish from NYSARA; NYSARA virtual town hall Tues. Jan.
12th, 2021 @ noon (20 seats left); NYS AFL-CIO 2021 legislative priorities; and
Covid relief bill (update it was signed 12.27.20). On behalf of your UUP
Benefit representatives, UUP Officers, your Retired Membership Governing Comm.
and Chapter Officer for Retirees we wish you and your family and friends a
Happy and Healthy New year in 2021 and we can move forward. Continue to be
safe and careful this winter and look to the future for virtual town hall
meetings, till we can meet in person again.
Charlie McAteer RMGC chair & delegate
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Happy Holiday Wish From NYSARA President
From the NYSARA Board of Directors and myself wishing you the happiest
healthiest and safest holiday season. 2020 has brought us more than the usual
set of challenges. From the normal lobbying for our issues, fighting the
attacks on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, health coverage et al to the
quadrennial Presidential election, 2020 went from despair and concern to the
election of Joe Biden as President and the feeling of hope. The pandemic was
both an all encompassing challenge, and for our membership because of their
age, a serious threat to our health and survival. While the pandemic made it
more difficult to advocate in our normal way, we devised and embraced
alternative methods to keep our issues in the forefront. From zoom town halls,
including our upcoming January 12th Winter Wellness Town hall, (detailed below)
to zoom meetings, e mails and our Monday Alert and website we found ways to
keep the communication lines open and to serve our membership.
We have challenges ahead in 2021. We all must be strong advocates in reminding
our friends, families and acquaintances how important it is to get the COVID
vaccination when it becomes available to them and must speak our on predictable
health care, social distancing and mask wear while the pandemic rages on. We
as Americans are in this together and together we will get through this
challenge.
Thank you for all you do to represent and advocate for seniors and all
Americans. I look forward to a banner 2021 and look forward to actually being
with you later in 2021. Enjoy the rest of the holidays with your loved ones.
(within the household) Stay safe and healthy. I will see you all on the other
side.
The happiest of New Year's to you all
Barry
Barry A. Kaufmann
President NYS Alliance for Retired Americans
Winter Wellness 2021
NYSARA Statewide Virtual Town Hall
Tues., Jan. 12, 2021, Noon-1pm
80 Participants Registered
Only 20 Spots Left
Start your new year off right! Join us for a lively discussion with two
dynamic guests - Becky Preve, Executive Director of the Association on Aging in
New York and Nancy May, author of Surviving 911 Emergencies: Step-by-Step
Before, During, After!
Get the latest information about the COVID 19 challenges facing seniors in New
York and learn valuable insights about how to prepare for and survive health
and emergency crises.
Program hosted by NYSARA President Barry Kaufmann and Executive Director
Stephen Madarasz.
RSVP Required - Limited to 100 Participants Once that limit is reached
Registrations will no longer be accepted. Please go to:
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To Register
NYS AFL-CIO Announces 2021 Legislative Priorities
The latest edition of the NYS AFL-CIO’s Union Strong Podcast features
Legislative Director Mike Neidl providing an overview of Labor’s top public
policy priorities for 2021
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The agenda focuses on lifting up working people by putting in place protections
for essential workers and providing support for all workers who continue to
suffer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Labor’s priorities also include revenue raisers to address the budget deficit
and a plan to ensure gig economy workers have the same basic rights and
protections as all other workers.
Click here for the agenda which was unanimously passed by the NYS AFL-CIO
Executive Board earlier this month:
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COVID Relief Bill Passed President Trump Throws A Monkey Wrench and Confusion
Into the Bill
Millions of jobless gig-workers and independent contractors, as well as
long-term unemployed Americans, have lost their unemployment benefits since
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hasn't signed the $900 billion relief
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Congress passed last week.
What's more, all laid-off workers will likely lose a week of the $300 federal
boost to payments because the President didn't put his signature on the
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by midnight Saturday.
The Covid-19 relief legislation, which had arrived at Mar-a-Lago by Friday to
await Trump's signature, would extend the number of weeks people can stay on
two key pandemic unemployment programs and increase weekly benefits by $300 for
all through mid-March.
But after sitting on the sidelines during the negotiations, Trump emerged with
an eleventh-hour complaint that a separate provision in the deal, which the
President's own White House helped broker, would only provide up to $600 in
direct payments. Trump now wants to send out $2,000 checks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seized on Trump's call for $2,000 checks and brought
to the floor a standalone bill that would have boosted the amount for relief
checks on Thursday. House
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however, objected to the bill over deficit concerns.
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were set to receive their final unemployment payment for the week ending this
weekend, according to The Century Foundation.
Those affected are part of the historic expansion of the nation's unemployment
system that Congress enacted as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act
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in late March.
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program allows independent contractors,
the self-employed, freelancers and gig workers to qualify for payments. It also
opens up the program to those who can't work because of the pandemic, including
if they or family members are ill or quarantining or if their children's
schools are closed.
And the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program provides an
additional 13 weeks of federally paid benefits to those who run out of state
payments, which typically last 26 weeks. The programs technically expire on
December 31.
The third CARES Act measure -- an extra $600 a week in federal payments --
expired at the end of July.
The new relief package expands the two pandemic programs for up to 11 weeks.
Each would close to new applicants on March 14, but continue through April 5
for existing claimants who have not yet reached the maximum of 50 weeks.
Even if Trump signed the latest relief package Saturday, the jobless would
likely still suffer a break in payments of several weeks while state agencies
reprogrammed the package's provisions into their computers. But the benefits
would be retroactive to the end of December.
However, states can't provide payments for weeks that start before the bill is
signed. Since Trump didn't act Saturday, those in these two programs would not
receive benefits for the final week of the year, though they would likely still
get the full 11-week extension, said Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst
for the National Employment Law Project.
But the $300 weekly boost for all unemployed Americans only runs through March
14, so it will likely be cut short by at least a week.The standoff comes as
millions of Americans face financial hardship -- including difficulty affording
food and shelter -- triggered by the coronavirus
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There are more problems on the horizon if Trump continues to let the
legislation sit on his desk.
A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention order
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halting some evictions is set to expire at the end of the year. Since the
order does not cancel or freeze rent, all of a tenant's back rent will be due
January 1 if the moratorium is allowed to expire. Without rent relief or an
extension of the protection, many struggling
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will again face eviction.
An estimated 9.2 million renters who have lost employment income during the
pandemic are behind on rent, or 23% of such renters, according to an analysis
of Census Bureau data by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The relief package would extend the eviction protection to January 31 and
provide $25 billion in rental assistance for those who lost their sources of
income during the pandemic.
The package passed by Congress is $900B, and includes funding as follows
$300B for the Paycheck Protection Program
$300 for Unemployment Benefits
$6B for vaccine distribution
$7B for Testing and Tracing
$2B for Nursing Homes
$700M for PPE
$35B for provider relief fund
$10B for child care
$28B for transportation
$10B for U.S. Postal Service
$25B for rental assistance
$82B for education
$140 - $160 billion direct stimulus payment of $600 per person
Increase in funding for Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP)
One month extension of eviction moratorium
