Gavin Newsom says $300 a week in added unemployment benefits is not enough, but he’ll take it

modbee ^ | 08/12/2020 | Andrew Sheeler

[know.your.why]

nice try is $450.. not even close. nice try again but you collect for 26 weeks.

was $605/wk for me in 2016 for 24weeks. Ontario, California.

[gogeo]

Hey Nuisance...unemployment is a states responsibility...maybe if you weren’t shoveling so much money to illegals and bums, you could afford it.

[markman46]

then you mush have made a lot in one quarter, per the EDD website the max is 450.00, as big as cal id with the population and cost of living the max should be 600 easy..

[Svartalfiar]

I think $300 was a good compromise from the $600, sure zero is better but the $300 might get more people back to work as well and the people who really do need will still accept it. Beggars can’t be choosers you know

It's not a matter of if people accept it or not, if you get any unemployment payments, the Federal helicopter money is auto-added to it. There's not even an option to deny it if someone were to choose to do so.

Originally, the only ones who needed to accept Trump's $$$ was the States, because they were supposed to be required to chip in an extra $100, and several said they couldn't afford it (only because it was coming from Trump), but that got nixed.

[Svartalfiar]

Max cali UI is $605/wk. +300=$900/wk. X 52weeks=47K/yr.

Thats paying people to NOT work. That not “unemployment”.

You forget, max Cali UI is 26 weeks (+13 from Federal PEUC, up to end of December). So that's only at most $35M/year (not including the $300/week on top of that from the previous $600 freebie). Plus, most people have been on UI for a while, so they don't have the full 39 weeks remaining.

But don't forget, it's all based on your base salary. For example, in TX you had to have made a minimum of $52M a year to get max unemployment of $521/week. So UI of $521, plus $600/week meant anyone making $58M or more a year was actually losing income by being on unemployment, compared to not having a shutdown. Lower it to $300/week, and that lowest wage for max UI is losing $10,000 per year on UI vs their old job, and they don;t even get that for the full year. Again, UI currently maxes out in most States at 39 weeks, not 52. All this because Abbott had to go all weak-kneed on us and shut down the State. Sigh.

It's not really paying people "not" to work, but it is certainly something FedGov has no Constitutional power to do. From the executive or legislatively.

[Svartalfiar]

This, using the lowest of all numbers involved....... at 2088 hrs in a work year, they are getting just north of 18/hr for NOT WORKING.

When, they were likely earning $22 or $24 per hour when they were working, before the State (or city/county in some cases) basically fired them. Which is who should be paying for all this, pretty easy argument for a taking under eminent domain. Forced closure is not much different than physically kicking you off your land.

[moehoward]

“ That was before he modified his exec order. Sunday he said the states could pull the $100 from federal funds.”

Most -safe bet all- of the states have superfluous fed funds from the earlier program. Those funds were always able to be retargeted as the required 100 that would release the additional 300. When Dem state govs -who had designs on keeping unused fed funds- cried broke, Trump had to amend the order to say, if the state contributed at least 100 in regular state UI, they qualify for the additional 300.

The original was also a bit messier with an application process, and waivers for “poor” states who could not advance the required 100.

Still, nothing stops a state from making good on the 400, we’ll see who does.

[Svartalfiar]

nice try is $450.. not even close. nice try again but you collect for 26 weeks.

was $605/wk for me in 2016 for 24weeks. Ontario, California.

You must have had some other benefit or something adding to it then. CA's UI website says the benefit ranges from $40 a week up to $450, and it goes for up to 26 weeks. I cannot see California having lowered their UI amount, especially when it's already in the middle ground of most states.

[mrsmith]

” Congress and the White House have been deadlocked “

A bald lie.
The deadlock is between the Parties.

Thanks to the media’s censorship the Dems have nothing to lose by holding money to people hostage to money for their states and local politicians.

[know.your.why]

You must have had some other benefit or something adding to it then. CA's UI website says the benefit ranges from $40 a week up to $450, and it goes for up to 26 weeks. I cannot see California having lowered their UI amount, especially when it's already in the middle ground of most states.

Whatever. Im telling you thats what i got. $605 was the max and thats what I got. You're mistaken. I dont care.

[Svartalfiar]

Whatever. Im telling you thats what i got. $605 was the max and thats what I got. You're mistaken. I dont care.

I am not mistaken, those numbers are direct from CA's UI website, which I even linked to. You might have had Food Stamps or some other CA benefit included in that, but UI from the State is only up to $450. And the first page of my websearch turns up nothing on it being higher a couple years ago. Looks to have been the same since 2005 or so, which was the last time it went up.