Deanna Paul
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first heard Aug 2020
last heard Aug 2020
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Waiting without pay for these tests week after week can be financially devastating for families.
Nearly half of American families don't have savings equivalent to two and a half weeks of take-home pay.
One woman that I spoke to from Georgia, she has been home waiting for a COVID-19 test result for 16 days, not getting paid, and she's not symptomatic.
She actually only went out to get a test because one of the people she was training at work came in with symptoms.
And so she went and got a test just to be safe, but she's never been symptomatic.
And yes, she's been home for 16 days waiting for a test result.
Another woman that I spoke to out of Richmond, Virginia is an incoming college senior, and she waits tables at a local neighborhood restaurant.
She's been homesick for, I believe, 17 days before she received the negative results and wasn't paid during that time.
And it's not the company's policy to pay if somebody's home waiting for a result that's negative.
She had to deplete her college savings for the fall by not being paid for that period of time.
Waiting without pay for these tests week after week can be financially devastating for families.
Nearly half of American families don't have savings equivalent to two and a half weeks of take-home pay.
The ironic part about all of this is that the CDC guidelines were revised to say that 10 days is the amount of time that somebody has to be at home quarantining.
So these people are well past that deadline that the CDC guidance says.
One of the women I spoke to is a freelancer.
She was saying that even though she was no longer symptomatic, she wanted her test in hand because she had clients and she wanted to make sure that going out and working with these clients as an independent contractor, that she wasn't taking a risk of getting them sick.
And the result of that was financially devastating for her had she not had savings put away for a situation like this.
So each state has its own rules about unemployment.
The states that I looked at, like in Georgia, in order for a person to be eligible for pandemic unemployment, they have to first not be eligible for the state unemployment.
The federal government also passed a stimulus bill in March, which expired last week at the end of July.
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