you ll get this free information kit. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts # medicare, call this toll-free number now. how about a little time off? a tennessee county had that idea to do just that and get employees to give to charity at the same time. if they donated money, they got extra time off. it looked like a great idea. but, of course, it backfired. now it s costing taxpayers. wpty uncovered it all from memphis. reporter: outside the shelby county general sessions court clerk s office, people line up to pay their court fees. i inform them of the charity bonus days. i guess if they re offering it, you know, hey, why not? i ve never heard of them, but
we re paying for them. reporter: employees who work for the general sessions court clerk bought days off work. a $50 donation to the united way allows them to take one day off. a $150 donation gets three additional days off work. donate $250 and you get an entire week. together, the general sessions employees donated more than $23,000 to the united way. their charity cost the taxpayers $63,000. that s because the employees are still being paid their county salaries during all this time they re taking off. we wanted to talk to clerk otis jackson about the bonus day deal, but he didn t respond to our request for an interview, so we went to his office. is otis in? he s in a meeting right now. offsite. so, all comments and everything need to go to william stovall. reporter: stovall is jackson s chief administrative officer.