Californians take advantage of paid family leave programme

Lorna Richardson Evans has her hands full with triplets, so she took advantage of the Paid Family Leave Program.

Not only did she get eight weeks for maternity leave, but she also got another twelve weeks to spend with her newly-expanded family.

“Because you have to nurse them and you have to nurture them and they’re so little and they only came home at four pounds and I would have had to stay home and lost my job and money if I didn’t have that opportunity,” she said.

According to the California Employment Development Department, 176,000 Californians filed claims for benefits in the first year of the program. 138-thousand of those claims were paid.

If the employer doesn’t pay, you and I do through the state disability insurance that’s deducted from your paycheck. 13-million workers in the state are covered under the fund.

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