This past April, as part of this year’s New York state budget, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State legislature allocated $1.2 billion in funding to introducing a “New York State Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus (HWB) Program.” The HWB Program provides for the payment of bonuses of up to $3,000 to certain frontline health care and mental hygiene workers in order to retain existing health care workers who were on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and to attract new frontline workers to the health care field. Continue
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