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Launch the displaced-worker program

Month 6 onward; benefits through Year 6 · Department of Labor; state workforce boardsDiscuss this step
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Task 1.13.4 of 5

Fast-track retraining into shortage occupations: medical assistants, community health workers, care coordinators, coders for UHA, and nursing (with paid apprenticeships).

Who does it
DOL / HRSA
When
Month 12+
Trade-off

Fast-track retraining fills shortages but not every displaced worker wants clinical work.

Part of: Launch the displaced-worker program

About 975,261 workers in insurance, billing, brokerage, PBMs, and related jobs will lose them over four years. The program pays wage replacement, wage insurance, training, and bridge pensions, and gives hiring preference at UHA and in health care.

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