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This bill, the American Workers, Families, and Employers Assistance Act, provides further assistance to American workers, families, and employers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key provisions include: - Extending and improving the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program to better match lost wages, providing supplemental emergency unemployment relief for government entities and nonprofits, conforming eligibility for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, and strengthening state unemployment systems. - Providing additional 2020 recovery rebates for individuals, expanding the employee hiring and retention tax credit, expanding the work opportunity credit, and creating a new tax credit for safe and healthy workplace expenses. - Maintaining 2021 Medicare Part B premiums and deductibles at 2020 levels, extending Medicare telehealth flexibilities, and supporting older foster youth. - Establishing COVID-19 strike teams for nursing facilities, promoting testing and infection control in nursing homes, and increasing transparency around COVID-19 reporting by nursing facilities. - Expanding the allowable uses of Coronavirus Relief Fund payments by states and local governments, including to address revenue shortfalls, and establishing accountability measures for the disbursement and use of these funds. - Providing state tax certainty for employers and employees related to remote work during the pandemic.

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