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   https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/migrant-crisis-spurred-nearly-3-   
   million-overtime-hours-for-two-nyc-agencies-costing-taxpayers-139m/   
      
   New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are   
   mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6   
   billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.   
      
   Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the   
   fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and   
   Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an   
   examination of city payroll records shows.   
      
   Each worker accumulated at least 1,851 hours in extra pay.   
      
   Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303   
   hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly   
   14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in   
   overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.   
      
   Bardhan Pijush, a DSS caseworker, was second with 3,137 extra hours,   
   followed by Gavin McAuley, a DHS housekeeper who clocked 2,664 hours of   
   OT.   
      
   In the previous fiscal year, 47 employees at both departments were among   
   the 100 who worked the most OT, a huge leap from fiscal 2022 when only   
   three workers made the list.   
      
   The migrant crisis “has been a major drain” on all municipal resources,   
   but the DSS and DHS’s overtime hours and payouts are “absolutely   
   staggering,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) told The Post.   
      
   “We simply can’t continue down this path,” he said. “It has to end, and   
   taxpayers are sick of it.”   
      
   DSS and DHS staffers have been especially stretched thin by the more than   
   226,900 asylum seekers and other border crossers who’ve reached the Big   
   Apple since April 2022 – and many have seen their workloads soar because   
   of it.   
      
   As of Friday the city’s migrant-crisis tab was $6.5 billion, and 53,800   
   migrants were still in city care at taxpayer-funded shelters as of Dec.   
   15, city officials said.   
      
   Both agencies in fiscal 2024 racked up a jaw-dropping 2,959,114 hours of   
   overtime combined, totaling more than $139.4 million in payouts, records   
   show.   
      
   That’s a staggering 67% increase from the 1,770,634 overtime hours worked   
   by DSS and DHS staffers in fiscal 2021, which predated the migrant crisis,   
   while agencies’ workers earnings for extra shifts have nearly doubled   
   since then, from $72.3 million.   
      
   It’s also a 10% increase from fiscal 2023, when the agencies’ staff   
   combined to rack up 2,690,659 additional hours, totaling $123.1 million in   
   overtime earnings.   
      
   New York taxpayers are still on the hook for picking up the tab for the   
   Biden administration’s border blunders, warned Ken Girardin, director of   
   research for the nonprofit think tank Empire Center for Public Policy.   
      
   “The bill is still running — we’re going to see bills like this for at   
   least another year,” he said.   
      
   When asked about the surge in OT to help migrants, DSS spokesperson Neha   
   Sharma said the agency is “extremely grateful” to its staffers who,   
   “despite truly unprecedented challenges, have stepped up and worked long   
   hours to provide necessary support for our newest arrivals and long-term   
   New Yorkers in need.”   
      
   “It is because of our remarkable staff that the City of New York can   
   continue to do more than any other level of government to support asylum   
   seekers while providing robust services and support to vulnerable New   
   Yorkers,” she said.   
      
   Burnett and Pijush did not return messages. McAuley could not be reached   
   for comment.   
      
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   Alison070299   
   10 hours ago   
      
   US taxpayers have already spent hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to   
   support the invaders. If they stay in US, we'll be spending hundreds of   
   billions for decades. Trillions spent on illegals. In actuality it would   
   be cheaper for taxpayers to deport them. This is why they must be   
   deported. Never vote Democrat again.   
      
      
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