Posted on 05/10/2021 2:05:12 PM PDT by conservative98
As business owners from coast to coast say they can’t find enough workers willing to come back to work, President Biden on Monday said he wants to make sure people offered a job either take it or lose the generous COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
“The law is clear: if you’re receiving unemployment benefits and you’re offered a suitable job, you can’t refuse that job and just keep getting the unemployment benefits,” Biden said at the White House.
“No one should be allowed to game the system and we will insist that the law is followed.”
Biden didn’t say how exactly current rules could be more strictly enforced. States administer unemployment benefits and many are bedeviled by notoriously outdated and inefficient computer systems.
Biden added: “Let’s not take our eye off the ball. Families who are just trying to put food on the table, keep a roof over their head, they aren’t the problem.”
Biden made the comments even as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted that the benefits, which pay some people more not to work, were not the cause of disappointing jobs numbers released last week.
Psaki told reporters at her daily briefing, “We don’t see evidence that extra unemployment insurance is a major driver in people not rejoining the workforce.”
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I hate to tell ya Joey boy, but THAT has been the law for donkeys’ years!
That’s racist!!
>>“No one should be allowed to game the system and we will insist that the law is followed.”
>>Biden didn’t say how exactly current rules could be more strictly enforced. States administer unemployment benefits and many are bedeviled by notoriously outdated and inefficient computer systems.
Conduct audits of people who’ve been on the system for a long time.
Applicants are supposed to keep records of which jobs they have applied for each week.
Don’t need to go through all of the employers, just check 8 from the previous month.
No, Joe. You are.
They didn’t have a “generous” unemployment payout until the covid years. Now it is quite possible to make more money staying at home than going (back) to work.
talk sounds correct for a change
now let’s see him do it!
there are zillions of grifters just sucking up all these free giveaways of our tax money AND NOT WORKING BY CHOICE since they can clear a lot more collecting welfare etc
than working
So what changed? Thought it didn’t exist.
Ohhhh, Xiden is sounding so Thatcheresque until you realize that a suitable job means a former Starbucks barista doesn't have to take their old job back unless it has something to do with their degree in xyz studies.
Babylon Bee really knows how to..... oh.... wait.... this isn’t ....
wow
Holy sheet, the most logical and coherent thing Biden has ever said.
Joe, you’re going to have to take their government payouts/handouts out of their cold, dead hands.
They ain’t gonna give up their freebies unless they’re forced to. And they know you ain’t gonna force them.
“Biden says people able to work must take jobs or lose unemployment”
So how does the almighty Harris...I mean Biden administration know if someone won’t look for work or refuses to take a job?
Such harsh words. I'm sure they will get back to work asap now.
BiXiden is tunneling Trump?
This has got to be just lip service from the bumbler in chief.
Ol Pig Face Bidet and his Ho are in panic mode.
The jobs (three letter word, if you all remember) number aint what they wanted them to be.
Hmmm...
From someone who has, essentially, been unemployed for 50-years and is still collecting a huge defacto unemployment salary...
weasel words if I’ve heard them. Who decides what is “suitable”? All depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
It didn’t matter until only getting a quarter of the expected new jobs embarrassed Biden’s puppeteers.
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