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Senior Republican lawmakers are studying a significant overhaul of emergency unemployment payments that could complicate the work of state agencies already struggling to get the benefits out to millions of Americans.
The ongoing talks are one key reason for the surprising delay in the introduction of the GOPs $1 trillion stimulus package. Administration officials and GOP lawmakers have said they want to cut but not outright eliminate enhanced federal unemployment benefits, but the final shape of the plan remains in flux.
Typically, state unemployment pays about 45 percent of a workers prior wages. In March, Congress approved a $600-per-week emergency bonus for every unemployed worker on top of that traditional payment, funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to newly jobless Americans as the pandemic hit the country.
That federal benefit, currently being received by more than 20 million people, is set to expire at the end of July. And it comes at a time when a federal eviction moratorium is also ending, a dynamic that could put enormous pressure on cash-strapped families.
In practice, the jobless benefit lapse means that millions of workers are seeing their last enhanced benefit payment this week.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Will approach it on Monday, meanwhile at least 20 millions by Monday - maybe evicted . . .
Mcturtle has no soul.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)States where their Governors have put moratoriums in place.
MichMan
(11,901 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)predict there will be a major population and economic shifts to those States.
Millennial's are now driving the Bus. Watch and see. The Boomers allowed Trump to happen and History will bare that out.
durablend
(7,459 posts)"Senior Republican lawmakers are studying a significant overhaul of emergency unemployment payments that could complicate the work of state agencies already struggling to get the benefits out to millions of Americans."
Kill the system, then voila no more problems!