Unemployment Recipients Might Not Be 'Overpaid' After All [View all]
One of the top talking points in the Capitol Hill debate over unemployment benefits might be wrong.
Most unemployment claimants are probably earning less on unemployment than they did at their previous jobs, according to a new data analysis by the liberal advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative and the National Employment Law Project.
A previous study by University of Chicago economists found that more than two-thirds of unemployment claimants received more in benefits than they did from work, thanks to an extra $600 weekly payment Congress created in March to help people who lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The extra $600 expired last week, and lawmakers are at an impasse over whether to replace the supplemental payments, which topped off workers’ ongoing state-funded jobless pay.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/unemployment-benefits-wages-130041861.html
Speaking as one who's been on unemployment I was not making as much as I was when working. Wonder where this GOP alternative reality is?
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