Americans in line for bonus checks worth up to $2,000 under $16million pot – are you eligible?

AMERICANS are set to get up to $2,000 in bonus checks for meeting certain criteria requirements.  

On Tuesday, the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) in North Carolina approved a plan that would give teachers the money.

Under the “LETRS professional learning bonus,” the system projects that the bonus checks will cost $16million.

Who’s eligible? 

There are multiple groups of teachers in the WCPSS that will be eligible for a bonus.

This includes the following:

• Elementary school English as a second language (ESL) teachers
• K-5 teachers
• Instruction specialists
• Special education instructors who teach the regular curriculum
• Those in the WCPSS who participated in training from 2019 to 2020
• WCPSS intervention and teachers for Academically or intellectually gifted (AIG) students who participate from 2022 to 2024

Also, to qualify eligible staff members must be working at the WCPSS on the first of the month that the bonus is paid.

And while K-5 teachers can be eligible for $2,000, they will only get $1,000 in they participate and do not achieve “mastery,” in their modules, according to the WCPSS.

The available training units are described as 1-4 and 5-8.

Pre-K teachers only need to complete modules 1-4 to be eligible for a maximum $1,000 bonus.

Those in that group will get $500 if they participate and fail to achieve mastery.

Those who qualify will get their total money divided into two separate checks.

For example, if you earn a $1,000 bonus you will get $500 during each cycle.

According to the WCPSS, the payments will go out in the following months.

• November 2022
• May 2023
• November 2024
• May 2024

Others offering bonus checks

Elsewhere, other states and cities have rolled out or announced plans for bonus checks. 

Florida, for example, is offering $1,000 bonus checks to first responders.

Governor Ron DeSantis said almost 100,000 in the state are going to get a bonus check.

In Minnesota, front-line workers are getting direct payments of $487 by the end of the week.

More than one million will get money. 

Also, Madison Wisconsin mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway made a proposal to send bonus checks worth up to $1,000 to all city employees.  

Roughly 2,900 employees would be eligible for a bonus check, with the city proposing to spend $3.4million.

For more on how you can get money, see the dozens of states and cities that have kicked off universal basic income programs.

And see the 13 states offering parents direct payments.