24 Bucks Co. Employers Get State Hazard-Pay Grants

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Two dozen employers in Bucks County have been awarded more than $1.5 million in hazard pay grants, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's office announced.

In total, Wolf's office said, $50 million in grants are available to help employers provide hazard pay to employees with life-sustaining jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.

"In the fight against COVID-19, our front-line workers have put themselves at risk every day in order to continue to provide life-sustaining services to their fellow Pennsylvanians and this funding will increase their pay in recognition of those sacrifices," Wolf said. "These grants will help businesses retain employees, ensure that Pennsylvanians keep working and avoid disruption of critical goods and services."

Grant funds can be used for hazard pay for direct, full-time and part-time employees earning less than $20 an hour, excluding fringe benefits and overtime for the 10-week period from Aug. 16 through Oct 24

Below are Bucks County's grant awardees, broken down by industry:

Healthcare

• Briarleaf Nursing and Convalescent Inc., $114,600
• Brookdale Senior Living Communities Inc., $119,160
• Community Welfare Council of Newtown (Pickering Manor Home), $73,200
• Greenleaf Nursing and Convalescent, Inc., $76,920
• Silver Home Care Bucks, $31,200
• Civiq Health, LLC, $36,720
• Good Friends, $7,560
• Mill Creek, $27,840
• Amerigroup Home Health Care, $3,720

Food Manufacturing

• Knauss Foods LLC, $37,200

Food Retail

• 7-Eleven, $6,000
• Holland Produce & Deli, Inc., $10,320
• Warminster Grocery Outlet, $28,800
• Landis Supermarket, Inc., $264,000
• Langhorne Store Inc., $7,080
• N&B Inc. Bucks, $6,000
• Simba Group Inc., $6,000

Social Assistance

• Jolly Toddlers Child Care, $20,400
• The Child Guidance Center, $10,200
• Associates Homecare Inc., $54,000
• Citizen Home Care Agency, $45,600
• Patient Bliss Home Care Agency, $30,000
• RRB Home Healthcare, $31,200
• Vitacare Home Health Inc., $521,640