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The Day - Public sector pensions are prime beneficiary of federal COVID relief grants - News from southeastern Connecticut


Published July 08. 2021 12:03AM 
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
The coronavirus left unprecedented damage in its wake. Massive unemployment, education interrupted for hundreds of thousands of students, and a safety net pushed beyond its limit not to mention more than 8,000 lives lost sparked countless appeals for government assistance to rebuild a struggling state.
Yet an analysis by the CT Mirror shows that more than six out of every 10 federal relief dollars built into the new state budget that began July 1 effectively will wind up in public-sector pension accounts.
And while Gov. Ned Lamont and others insist the new state budget and the billions Congress sent to Connecticut via the American Rescue Plan Act will be used to heal the state’s wounds, others question whether the administration’s priorities are askew. Pension debt deserves to be addressed after being ignored for decades, they say, but that shouldn’t come at the expense of the ....

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Providers worry they might not be able to meet staff fingerprinting deadline, leading to forced terminations - News


Connecticut long-term care providers are quickly trying to comply with a state mandate that requires healthcare workers hired during the pandemic to submit fingerprints for a background check by July 20 or face termination.
To mitigate COVID-19 risk and facilitate hiring, Connecticut officials had relaxed fingerprinting. But the state’s Department of Public Health recently reminded providers that the requirement was back in full effect. They reiterated the deadline in an urgent memo sent to nursing homes and other healthcare facilities late last week, according to multiple local reports.
More than 7,000 workers were hired across the state during the public health crisis, and, so far, about 3,000 have been fingerprinted, according to the health department. ....

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