Impact of Paid Family and Medical Leave in Washington
This brief estimates of benefits, costs, interactions with other means tested programs, and impact on poverty for the paid family and medical leave program.
Using an enhanced version of the Department of Labor’s Worker Paid Leave Usage Simulation (Worker PLUS) model, in concert with the Urban Institute’s Analysis of Taxes, Transfers and Income Security (ATTIS) model, 2 we examine the following questions:
- How much would workers have received in benefits, and how would they have been distributed by demographic group and benefit type under the Washington PFML program?
- Would benefits under the Washington PFML program have reduced poverty overall and for families who took benefits? By how much? How would taxes and participation in other safety net programs have been affected?
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