Paid Sick Leave Program Opens Monday, January 10
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News releases from the Government of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is relaunching its COVID-19 Sick Leave Program as the province battles the fourth wave of COVID-19.
He hit his head. so i run and get my son and he dented the door frame with his head, and we are in the er now. i can't pay one whole bill. i have to pay a little of the rent i'm behind on, a little of this, a little of that. my husband is not here. he's out of town working. he's over 600 miles away. >> it's hard being a parent. also hard being a small business owner and losing your employees. i've talked to many small businesses, though, who say, hey, listen, we'd love the idea of a federal paid leave program so we don't have to continue to rehire and to retrain our valued employees. it means ...
Insulin will be kept at $35 a month for your insulin. finally. the first ever federal paid leave program. you have a family member who is sick? an older parent or grandparent to has some sort of medical deficiency, or maybe you have a baby in the new picture? four weeks of paid family and medical leave ever in this country. also, preschool now available for all kids in the country for all three and four-year-old. and win more support for people to get free meals at school. and money to fix stuff out of the school buildings. pell grants to help people pay for college. we are short on health car...
Here we are now. i mean, that's the walk that you walk. but here's what you get at the end of it. i mean what the house is going to pass tonight, this is, you know, hearing aids finally being covered by medicare, finally. a hard cap on what anyone on medicare has to pay out of pocket in any one year for their prescriptions. that seems reasonable.on why didn't we do that before? also, finally, relief for americans who use insulin. insulin used to be cheap and noo it's totally unpredictable in its pricing, some people going over $1,000 a month. if you need insulin, it's not like optional. you ne...