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'This is the thanks we get': Trump leaves Census workers holding the bag in $7M 'accounting mess'
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Previous president Donald Trump's choice to stop finance burdens for specific representatives including transitory Census laborers – has made a $7 million bookkeeping wreck for the agency.
"The authority was one of numerous government
Organizations coordinated to quit gathering a few workers' portion of a finance charge that helps store the Social Security framework in the last a very long time of 2020," NPR announced Friday night. "Trump promoted the push as a way of getting 'greater checks for working families' during the Covid pandemic. The previous organization had said it would attempt to persuade Congress to excuse the finance charges. Yet, with no development from administrators, the additional cash basically turned into a brief advance that specialists needed to repay in the long run."
The Census authority let NPR know that $7,078,909 in finance charges were conceded for 177,964 impermanent workers. Not really settled that 147,619 workers owed short of what it would cost to attempt to gather the obligation from them, while it sent letters and messages to another 28,000.
One of the previous representatives who got the notification in September called it "sort of a shock… so long sometime later."
"It was extremely disturbing as it were, similar to this is the thanks we get for every one of our endeavors," said Alex Almeida of Phoenix, who completed his assistant occupation at a Census office in November 2020.
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