Snow96
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My proposal is to drop the $600 extra (across the board) on UI down to $400.
the $600 is making someone earning about $30 an hour whole . . . and given everyone under that a huge incentive to ask to be fired.
The other alternative is severe financial penalties to any company gaming the system and just fireing working because they know they will get more on unemployment than working.
Simpson’s old lady with the cats
$600.00/40hrs = $15.00/hr
That’s also before taxes as a reminder. Where are you getting $30.00/hr from?
Snow96
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That’s a week the 600
$20 per hour = 800 per week
Unemployment pay is about 350 per week
adding 600 per week they would be getting 950 per week.
400 per week would get them close at $750
I’ll find the article with the figures in it.
600 is about 20ish an hour…about 22 an hour…
So no.
Magic beans?
I was making 25 an hour and bringing home little under 1400 base.
I make 18 now and base is about 500 without over time
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Snow96
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I’m not talking after taxes.
It would be the same. Dude. simple math. You work 40 hours a week at $20 an hour, that’s $800 PER WEEK.
Unemployment is PER week. They want to give $600 to everyone on unemployment.
I’m still looking for the article that expalins at 800 a week (aka 20 an hour) your unemployment check each week would normally be 350. Now they will give you $600 on top. So you will make (before taxes 950 per week (150 a week MORE than if your working).
Yes you would have to pay taxes on unemployment payments (already do). Would be the same as paying taxes on your 800 a week.
$950.00/40hrs/week = $23.75/hr.
Still not $30.00/hr.
Also, South Carolina as an example maxes out at $290.00/week for UI. That is if you make an income that is in the upper range of qualification as well. Many receive a lesser amount than the absolute maximum qualified.
We are going to give hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations who failed to even have enough cash on hand to survive a 6 week downturn in business, but are going to quibble over $200.00 extra dollars for the poorest working Americans in the country? That’s insane to me.
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RTchoke
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I believe he is thinking what they normally get in UI benefits PLUS an additional $600 week. Not just getting $600 a week.
First off all,…
Asking to be fired? Lol
2nd, you do realize that the more former employees that file for ue and get approved, the more the company has to pay into ue insurance?
Why do you think companies try to fight us claims as much as they do?
And you think a bunch of companies are just going to fire people because they asked to?
Laughable.
Finally you arent eligible for ue is you quit your job, asking for your employer to fire you and them doing so just because you asked isnt gonna fly with the UE office especially if they go digging for documentation, especially if you dont live in a right to work state.
This whole business is nonsense and grandstanding, guess Nancy isnt the only one who knows how to pull this crap.
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Snow96
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You about owe me a new keyabord sone. $20 an hour is the POOREST working americans???
Snow96
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The way the bill is written, a person would get normal UI payments PLUS the $600 per week.
Before taxes I make more than that. I work 48 hours a week right now and bring home about 700 a week…that’s not 30 an hour. Only 8 hours of overtime comes to 27 an hour.
You are wrong…
Snow96
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How is $20 x 40 hours a week NOT $800
Every math class I’ve ever been in 2x4 = 8
I’m not talking take home pay.
I’m talking what a person ACTUALLY makes.
The 800 a week has taxes (state/fed and some places local, fica medicade and such).
The 950 a week on UI would only be subject to state/fed and local.
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Fuzzy math. $600/wk isn’t ■■■■■ That’s barely enough to cover most people’s rent.
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It’s not but it’s not balloons and expensive wine either.
Snow96
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$600 x 4 weeks a month is $2,400
350 x 4 weeks a month is $1,400
add the two up , 3,800 a month.
Better be able to cover rent with that if you were maiking $20 an hour.
Is that what I said? No. It in fact is not what I said.
What I said was…
In direct relation to your suggestion of cutting the weekly UI amount from $600.00 to $400.00. While yes this may include those making $20.00/hr but it’s also going to include those making less than that.
Regardless, your suggestion of $600.00/wk in UI benefits will make a $30.00/hr employee whole is inaccurate. And $400.00/wk in UI benefits is really an amount that will not benefit a vast majority of workers.
Finally, it is absurd to think that people will seek to be involuntarily fired just to claim UI benefits. And that employers would oblige. And obviously people cannot just quit working and then claim UI benefits.
