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Baltimore City FFs, EMTs to Get Stipend During Pandemic

March 26, 2020

The biweekly stipend will go out next week to Baltimore's firefighters, EMTs, police officers and other city employees deemed “mission critical," Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced.

By Talia Richman

Source The Baltimore Sun

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Baltimore will provide some employees at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic with a $200 biweekly stipend, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced Wednesday.

“It is critical that we provide any relief we can to our front line employees to ease burdens at home while they continue to go to work on behalf of the city and its residents,” Young said in a statement.

The stipend will go into effect Monday, and will show up on employees’ first scheduled payroll checks. Firefighters, EMTs and police officers will each receive $200, while other employees deemed “mission critical” will get an additional $100 biweekly.

Young, a Democrat, last week put the city under a state of emergency. Since then, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city has increased tenfold.

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