Keep smiling Nancy you ugly old wino and eat your expensive ice cream!
Posted on 08/10/2020 9:53:42 AM PDT by 11th_VA
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio unemployment claimants would receive $300 in federal weekly unemployment assistance under an option provided by the White House that doesn’t require extra state spending, the administration of Gov. Mike DeWine said.
The plan agreed to late Sunday by Gov. Mike DeWine means less money for the unemployed under another option, that would provide $400 a week, with $100 coming from the state.
Both options involve less than the $600 a week in federal pandemic aid that recipients were receiving until their expiration on Aug 1, with Congress unable to agree on an extension.
Ohio recipients will still receive regular state unemployment benefits under the plan. The new federal benefit might not take effect until later this month while Ohio seeks guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor for implementing it, said DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney. He said software changes were required to the state’s unemployment compensation computer system.
The money helps further the state’s recovery from the pandemic “because this does go directly back into Ohio’s economy,” Tierney said.
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Why would any state contribute when $300 is free and there is no requirement for paying more?
I would have offered this as the federal payment of $300 only occurs if the state pays $100 and no other option was available. It would have made states pony up money to show they cared and were responsible for getting people off unemployment.
Now, let’s just keep them on unemployment, because unemployment is paid by employers and employees and we get an extra $300 from Uncle Sam.
I’m pretty sure everyone here would be going ape**** if Obama did the same thing.
That said, I approve of the EO.
Here in California at least a million unemployed workers still haven’t received a penny of their benefits for the past five months due to an incompetent state unemployment department using obsolete computers and broken phone systems. I would imagine this new extension would be beyond their ability to implement, which means continued suffering for a whole lot of people.
I had to take two furlough weeks, the first of which was April 20. Still haven’t received benefits. I still have the job and I don’t need the money, but it sure doesn’t give one a good feeling about how the system works.
I’m pretty sure everyone here would be going ape**** if Obama did the same thing.
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I am willing to acknowledge this bias.
To me, the whole context of democrats using anything as an excuse to advance socialism would definitely be affecting how I feel about it, and I’d probably be jumping on Obama for it. TBH, I’m not thrilled about incentivizing unemployment, but I would imagine that most people who could go back to work, would go back to work. Most of the people with the propensity not to work or to game the welfare system were already doing that before covid19
Aren’t unemployment benefits, state-based? Why should the Feral government have anything to do with it?
Under FEMA disaster aid rules, there is a section where people who are affected by a disaster, are eligible for unemployment benefits - seems Trump was advised of this rule and ran with it. The law reads 25% state contribution, 75% Federal - hence $100 + $300.
Nancy and the Rats want $600 - this may play itself out to a compromise of $500. The art of the deal.
It will put additional pressure on RAT state budgets and consequently pressure on those governors to reopen and STAY reopened.
I heard it’s through the end of the year too. I guess it takes off the table for another round of Dems trying to get more money if President had just done 90 days.
I am staying to hell away from that. I could collect being part time and semi retired, but then comes income tax season...
We paid our income taxes this year at the time they were due. I dont trust the IRS or any government agency.
Would be nice to have a notation put along side of it all though stating we paid them on time. But instead we will get an audit for being so prompt I suppose.
My business has been shut down since March. We depend on concerts, football games, broadway shows, etc. to do business. I don’t see any light at the end of our tunnel yet but I’d much rather be working. And no, I’m not going to take a job in a grocery store until we can restart. The government was the cause of our business shutting down so they can pay me.
Keep smiling Nancy you ugly old wino and eat your expensive ice cream!
I laugh harder at Nancy and Chuck than I do at SNL.
How can it be a disaster when it was primarily self-inflicted? Sounds like once again, we're rewarding incompetence.
Maryland’s system has been FUBAR too.
Finally after 3 months I called up my district’s congress critter and he fixed everything for me in about a week.
Dozen of times I called, emailed and wrote Hogan through his web site.
I NEVER heard back
Trump is a genius. He just reduced the Fed pandemic contribution from 600 wk to 300. Ohio is taking the 300 option without adding the state 100. Every state should do this. Then Cuomo can’t continue to state NY can’t afford this. Because the state doesn’t have to put up their own money.
Well considering the unemployed aren’t the self inflicted....
“The art of the deal”....I think this is the key to this EO, and why Im so annoyed by the constitutional hand wringers such as we find over at National Review . Im not for hand outs, but I’m also not for being told I can’t work anymore by the state. As far as I’m concerned, Im owed a hell of a lot more money than $600 bucks a week after being told I can no longer continue at my 6-figure job because #covid. And if congress wants to play games with the livelihoods of the American people who have been forced out of their jobs by the state’s “infinite wisdom” then I am for anything that brings these schleps in DC back to the table. That is precisely what this EO does and why he did it. It was brilliant. And I’m betting legitimate legislation will be passed before the first check comes via this EO.
In chess it’s not the move that threatens, it’s the threat of the move.
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