My wife is one.
Which is why I say no more $ help from DC. Time to get moving. Let them live on unemployment alone, others will fill their positions, as many probably others will have no job to go back to.
This article is correct, the benefits should have been provided for a shorter time period and should expire as we move to open the economy.
Thee wife is experiencing this. Many of their workers won’t come back.
The leftist meme hitting social media this morning:
“Re-opening is about shifting the financial burdens of pandemic from the states to individuals, and this burden will fall disproportionately on workers who can’t collect unemployment once their employers reopen.”
We have gone to flattening the curve to keep the money coming.
Lindsay Graham noticed this, ah, flaw in the proposal, and tried to get it cleaned up. I wonder what became of his effort.
This guarantees the unemployment will remain high in November. Who does that benefit?
Democrat party vote buying campaign.
These funds were thrown out there without a lot of forethought. The same thing goes for the stimulus checks. My wife and I just got $2400 from the feds. Why? We don’t need it. We had a combined income last year of just over $100,000. We live in a rural area, and that income easily puts us in the top 5% around here. Our house is paid for, and we have zero debt. I’m retired with a guaranteed state pension, and my wife has a good solid job. We have more than half-a-million in retirement savings, with most of it in banks, not in the stock market. Why is a stimulus check sent to people like us? We plan to give the money to charity or to some friends who might need help.
These people are going to scream come tax time when they have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits.
That is if you can actually collect them. Here in NJ, good luck. The unemployment office is so overrun that nobody is getting unemployment.
Guilty as charged.... there’s chance my job will never come back.... job prospects at age 65 not good
Absurdity!
If you are a part time worker only, you are making out like a bandit. If you had a second, part time job that was stopped, but still have your full time job, you are struggling.
When called back to work and they decline, all benefits should cease.
bkmk
I have a friend who told me his wife is in this situation. Fortunately, she would rather work than be a moocher...she is a South American LEGAL immigrant, btw.
My friend is irritated the law allows people not to work and get MORE $ for doing so. This law must be repealed.
ASAP.
Think it is bad now?
Nancy Pelosi and many of her minions want to make it permanent, whether you work or not.
The road to hell...