[Prince of Space]

My 67-year-old husband was furloughed from his server job at a casino on March 18th through October 31st with 1 day’s notice. I love Arizona but they have the second lowest UI payment in the country ($240/week max). Even with the extra $600/week, he’s still $1500 short of what he was making per month pre-Covid.

He’s also a real estate agent during the day and lost 2 deals in April because of the clients’ economic uncertainty due to the virus. There are many ppl whose livelihoods have taken a huge hit from the shutdown through no fault of their own. The govt has no right to decide winners and losers by not allowing ppl to work during this pandemic debacle, and they have an obligation to make those ppl whole by extending the pandemic assistance program.

[headstamp 2]

For every situation like your husband’s, there are ten scams going. If your job is calling you back to work, you should be required to go or lose your benefits. (How UI is supposed to work)

Holding out to milk the system isn’t right either.