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3 <br /> <br />Are recipients permitted to use Fund payments to pay for unemployment insurance costs incurred by <br />the recipient as an employer? <br />Yes, Fund payments may be used for unemployment insurance costs incurred by the recipient as an <br />employer (for example, as a reimbursing employer) related to the COVID-19 public health emergency if <br />such costs will not be reimbursed by the federal government pursuant to the CARES Act or otherwise. <br />The Guidance states that the Fund may support a “broad range of uses” including payroll expenses for <br />several classes of employees whose services are “substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to <br />the COVID-19 public health emergency.” What are some examples of types of covered employees? <br />The Guidance provides examples of broad classes of employees whose payroll expenses would be eligible <br />expenses under the Fund. These classes of employees include public safety, public health, health care, <br />human services, and similar employees whose services are substantially dedicated to mitigating or <br />responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Payroll and benefit costs associated with public <br />employees who could have been furloughed or otherwise laid off but who were instead repurposed to <br />perform previously unbudgeted functions substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to the <br />COVID-19 public health emergency are also covered. Other eligible expenditures include payroll and <br />benefit costs of educational support staff or faculty responsible for developing online learning capabilities <br />necessary to continue educational instruction in response to COVID-19-related school closures. Please <br />see the Guidance for a discussion of what is meant by an expense that was not accounted for in the budget <br />most recently approved as of March 27, 2020. <br />In some cases, first responders and critical health care workers that contract COVID-19 are eligible <br />for workers’ compensation coverage. Is the cost of this expanded workers compensation coverage <br />eligible? <br />Increased workers compensation cost to the government due to the COVID-19 public health emergency <br />incurred during the period beginning March 1, 2020, and ending December 30, 2020, is an eligible <br />expense. <br />If a recipient would have decommissioned equipment or not renewed a lease on particular office space <br />or equipment but decides to continue to use the equipment or to renew the lease in order to respond to <br />the public health emergency, are the costs associated with continuing to operate the equipment or the <br />ongoing lease payments eligible expenses? <br />Yes. To the extent the expenses were previously unbudgeted and are otherwise consistent with section <br />601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance, such expenses would be eligible. <br />May recipients provide stipends to employees for eligible expenses (for example, a stipend to employees <br />to improve telework capabilities) rather than require employees to incur the eligible cost and submit for <br />reimbursement? <br />Expenditures paid for with payments from the Fund must be limited to those that are necessary due to the <br />public health emergency. As such, unless the government were to determine that providing assistance in <br />the form of a stipend is an administrative necessity, the government should provide such assistance on a <br />reimbursement basis to ensure as much as possible that funds are used to cover only eligible expenses.
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