Pa. Workers Brace For 'Payless Paydays'

HARRISBURG, Pa. - As Pennsylvania's budget impasse reaches the end of its second week, lawmakers will bring two competing spending plans to the House floor.

Democrats are pushing for a tax increase in an effort to avoid more cuts to state programs.

Republicans have vowed to oppose any tax increase.

So now tens of thousands of Pennsylvania state workers are bracing for so-called "payless paydays."

With the state budget already two weeks overdue, authorized payments for state workers are running out and some have already seen their paychecks reduced.

Lawmakers need to pass a budget by July 31 or those paychecks could stop.

Several credit unions and banks have offered low interest lows to help affected workers.