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MTA Will Withhold Death Benefits From Unvaccinated Workers

FILE — A New York City Subway train in Harlem on May 17, 2021. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to extend a $500,000 death benefit to its employees who die of Covid-related causes through the end of 2021, a senior authority official said Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. But the benefit will remain unavailable to those who decline to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)