But data from the ZOE app shows that 31% of people who are ill with COVID-19 don’t have any of these three signs in the early stages of the disease. Right now, you can only get an NHS test if you have any of the three core symptoms of cough, fever or loss or change in smell (anosmia). Extend expiring health extenders to November.If you’re newly ill it could be COVID-19, so get a test.Allow HSAs to be used to purchase over-the-counter medicines.Provide liability protection for providers who volunteer (Good Samaritan).Provide tax policy incentives, such as fixing key technical corrections from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including QIP and NOL.Temporarily expand unemployment insurance to provide a lifeline for those who have lost their jobs.Expand the use of Telehealth medicine to surge capacity to diagnose and treat patients in a safer and faster environment.Rush resources to hospitals, doctors and other front line providers.Provide Treasury and the Fed the ability to provide several trillion in assistance to distressed industries, including airlines, through guaranteed loans while also including strong accountability protections.Allow regulatory relief so banks can grant loan forbearance for otherwise healthy businesses struggling while business has been shut down.Send direct checks to individual Americans of up to $1,200.Provide grants and loans to small businesses to meet payroll and pay rent.This legislation includes the following provisions: The Senate passes Coronavirus Phase III legislation, H.R. For states that experience an increase of 10 percent or more in their unemployment rate (over the previous year)
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Full Federal Funding of Extended Unemployment Compensation for a Limited Period.$500 million would be used to provide immediate additional funding to all states for staffing, technology, systems, and other administrative costs, so long as they met basic requirements about ensuring access to earned benefits for eligible workers.Provides $1 billion in 2020 for emergency grants to states for activities related to processing and paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, under certain conditions.Provides the Agriculture Secretary with the authority to waive administrative requirements that might prevent children and parents from accessing nutrition programs.Provides funding and flexibility to ensures low-income students continue to have access to meals if schools are closed.$400m for the Emergency Food Assistance Program.$250m for senior nutrition programs, including home-delivered nutrition programs like Meals on Wheels.$500 million for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).$1.25 billion to provide emergency nutritional assistance for senior citizens, women, children, and low-income families, including:.These provisions sunset after December 31, 2020.Affected employees include those with COVID-19, under quarantine, caring for someone affected, and with children whose school has closed.Additionally, the Secretaries of Treasury and Labor will have regulatory authority to provide flexibility so small businesses under 50 employees are not unduly harmed.Additionally, under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) expansion, employees unable to work due to childcare circumstances, like a closed school, are entitled to at least 10 weeks of paid leave at two-thirds of the employee’s pay.Businesses with fewer than 500 employees will receive a 100% tax credit for both types of leave up to capped levels, credited against quarterly payroll taxes.The vast majority of businesses with more than 500 employees already offer paid sick leave.Businesses with fewer than 500 employees are required to provide 14 days of paid sick leave to employees affected by COVID-19.Paid sick leave for impacted American workers:.Appropriates $1.2 billion to help cover the costs of coronavirus testing, including $142 million to eliminate copay requirements for service members and veterans.Requires all commercial insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, Indian Health service, and TRI-CARE to cover, and impose no cost-sharing for testing diagnosis of COVID-19.6201 – Families First Coronavirus Response Act, by a vote of 363-40. The House passes Coronavirus Phase II legislation, H.R. The Trump Administration expands European travel restrictions to include the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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