For Many, $600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work

NPR ^ | May 26, 2020 | Scott Horsley

[shelterguy]

The 600 dollar bonus ends in July. The issue will be over at that time. The people can either go to work, like they used to, or starve.

[datricker]

Kinda like when they bailed out the banks with TARP right? So that was okay but to all the citizen who had their life distrupted helping them out oh shit now its UBI and Marxism. Are bailouts bad? Probably at least the citizens got some of the money this time.

So I'm really not concerned as this won't last very long. American's on average work like 2 weeks longer than most any other people on the planet - people need to chill, but most everyone is stir crazy and wants to get back to work, perhaps employers will have to pay workers a bit more - oh no.

[Thank You Rush]

“”The $600 extra was by design by the DEMs ($15/hr times 40 hours), and the Republicans and Trump went along with it.””

Working exactly as planned - only government program to be successful. Now what? Oh - back to the old drawing board, I guess or to Pelosi’s kitchen for some new ideas.

Did you hear that Dennis Miller said the difference between her and her refrigerator is when you open the door to her fridge, the light comes on!! I know - that doesn’t do justice to the way he actually said it but it was super.

[Freee-dame]

When the CARES act was passed, the country was in a panic. Republicans in the House protested about people choosing not to return to work if they were getting more on UI + than working. They were shouted down by Dems and media as being uncaring. I think that they could see this as a losing proposition in the fall election.

One of the early federal money giveaways included language saying that people did not have to go to work if they were afraid of getting the C-virus. This may be why people can stay home from their jobs even if the business reopens.

It seems that the lower level a job is, the bigger the difference in the money amounts. A restaurant dishwasher can easily get another job if he gets fired for not going back. He may never have had a four month vacation with pay in his entire life ...then again, who has?

[HotHunt]

Sec. Manchin said this last week that unemployment benefits will be stopped for those employees who refuse to go back to work when their jobs open back up after their employers re-open their businesses after the pandemic.

The logistics of that could be a little difficult but that is what he said.

[Vision]

Most pathetic headline ever, maybe.

[shanover]

Pelosi runs a good part of the country. The GOP are cucks.

[Pontiac]

Still, Vavra and his University of Chicago colleagues say the flat, $600-a-week benefit does create questions of fairness, especially when other low-income workers are still on the job doing essential work.

Yes. It is never fair when you take the money out of one man’s pocket to put it in the pocket of another man.

And it is very damaging to the economy when you give a man an incentive NOT TO WORK!

Idiots.

[Pontiac]

In many cases, workers who turn down a job offer from their old employer may lose their eligibility to collect unemployment insurance.

That's a chance Sonya Chartier and her husband are willing to take. They both opted not to return to work at a Wisconsin furniture store where customers are not required to wear masks. Chartier says she worries about infecting her mother-in-law, who lives with the couple.

Having seen how the bureaucracy works it is very likely that they will continue to receive their state unemployment benefits even though they have turned down work.

But they had better save those benefits, not spend them.

There is a chance that their failure to accept work will eventually be discovered and the state will want that money back. And government is never happy to wait for money that was accepted in bad faith.

The State will be making threats of prosecution and jail. And those threats will not be empty threats.

[adorno]

"It's hard to think about going back to work in this pandemic and getting paid less than we are right now when we're safe and at home in quarantine."

The solution to that paradox, is that, when the places of work open up, the government checks stop flowing, and those who still want to remain at home, will lose both: their jobs and the government checks.

Getting back to normal does not mean staying at home and taking advantage of the temporary systems.

[preacher]

L8r

[vpintheak]

Government making living in poverty easy. Sickening. People have no pride. Every last pathetic person who refuses to go back to work shouldn’t get a dime.

[FlyFisher]

If your job has been offered back, and you refuse, then ALL unemployment benefits end, and you are not able to come back. There are lots of other people who will work in your place. Starve greedy bastard. Starve!

[trebb]

The supposed safety catch is that if they are called back to work and refuse to go, the benefits stop short.

[mewzilla]

If you get a check from the government and a the money is not for goods and/or services rendered, it’s all welfare.

[PIF]

In Wisconsin the monthly sum would be around $3700 or $23 hr

[PIF]

I heard this morning from my old boss that the new plan is to pay everyone with a job $4300. Where is all this money coming from? Millennials and those generations to follow.

[Thank You Rush]

“”He may never have had a four month vacation with pay in his entire life ...then again, who has?””

Is that how long the extra $600 is supposed to last? I have gotten lost in the weeds of all these bills - they were talking about #3 before I even knew what #1 and #2 were. I guess there’s a #4 already and moving on to #5 or in DC speak - probably #10....

[Thank You Rush]

The people who keep putting these idiots back in office are the ones who will be paying the bills. Hope they enjoy it. Sad that our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren will have to divvy up also but they need to learn what it’s all about early on and get busy and reclaim their country! Hard to see what will be left to reclaim if things continue like they are. Not their parents/grandparents country for sure!

[hoagy62]

While I was out for 6 weeks while I waited to be able to go back to work, our business had weekly meetings on Zoom. During one of those early meetings, my boss informed us that he knew we might make more than we normally do using unemployment insurance. However, he did say this when we were able to get back to work, and we refused, it’d be considered quitting, and if we continued to try to receive UI, he’d inform the Employment Security Dept. that we were no longer eligible.

Makes perfect sense to me. As it was, I did apply for and received unemployment. We are now back to work, granted in a limited capacity. Everyone came back.