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SSB Mechanism May Be Used To Pay Laid Off Tourism Workers
posted (March 23, 2020)

And, indeed, in uncertain times, many are trying to scrape up whatever funds they have.  Thousands of Belizeans stand to lose their jobs, and face dire times ahead.  Today, the PrimeMinister said that the Social Security Apparatus may be used to give COVID-affected workers, a marginal income in troubled times:

Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow
"I already have a model of some social regulations that we can pass to tap into social security funds - also so that we may use usb for the conduit for payments to people who we must protects as a consequence of the layoffs, etc."

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