Posted on 04/02/2021 11:44:15 AM PDT by bitt
New York state lawmakers on Thursday were negotiating a $2.1 billion fund that would give unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants and former inmates — possibly providing some recipients with around $28,000.
Legislators and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office were hashing out details of the “Excluded Worker Fund,” which would be part of the now-overdue 2021-22 state budget, sources told The Post.
The proposal, introduced in the Senate and Assembly two weeks ago, aims to help residents who are otherwise ineligible for federal aid, such as people living in the country illegally or those recently sprung from jail.
Advocates — who are pushing for the fund to be closer to $3.5 billion — have stressed that these so-called “excluded workers” were hit-hard by the pandemic but didn’t receive COVID-19 stimulus checks or jobless aid.
The proposal would impact an estimated 275,000 workers across the Empire State: 173,000 in New York City; 187,000 undocumented immigrants; and 87,000 recently incarcerated people.
Payments would be calculated to mirror the weekly amounts from federal or state unemployment insurance, or roughly about $500 a week.
Recipients would reap an estimated $12,600 on average, assuming they were unemployed for 24 weeks from the start of the pandemic in March 2020, according to a report by the Fiscal Policy Institute.
“The maximum benefit anyone could receive, if they were unemployed for the entire time covered, would be $28,600 for the first year of the pandemic, March 2020 through March 2021, and $17,500 for April through December of 2021,” the organization found.
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“The maximum benefit anyone could receive, if they were unemployed for the entire time covered, would be $28,600 for the first year of the pandemic, March 2020 through March 2021, and $17,500 for April through December of 2021,” the organization found.”
They want them to outnumber us.
Once they do, they’ll give them the “go” signal to wipe us out.
is this part of the recent pandemick recovery package?
or will it be part of the new infrastructure package??
Cons are getting unemployment benefits? How much does rape, robbery and murder pay a month?
Bump
Using taxpayer’s money to buy votes should be against the law!
But demonrats do it all the time.
The current idiotic regime needs to go.
NOW.
Rhetorical but why do these leftists scum care more about illiterate disease ridden foreign invaders than American homeless citizens?
??
According to headline and article this is New York state
How long before the billboards appear with Trump’s face & the graphic:
MISS ME YET???
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They don’t have to do much to ‘wipe us out’. TPTB don’t believe in Private Property rights. All they need to do is put up a referendum on ownership. We lose everything then
wow
just wow
crime does pay.
A California based woman director for our parent company, ITT was lecturing us at a meeting that she would give an ex-con a job over anyone else, “because he deserved a break.” I asked, “what about the young father of two who has never broken a single law? Doesn’t he deserve a break too?” She darkened and looked angry. I got kicked under the table by our VP. He told me later, if you want a job, don’t poke the tiger.
Any idiot can put a bill into a hopper.
And NY has no shortage of elected idiots.
It’s dated April 1.
I miss when he tweeted about election fraud then did FA about it
Much better idea than using the money to reimburse business owners that they FORCED to shutdown over the past year.
As it stands we are so fvkd. We have nothing to stop any of this.
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