Several replubicans threaten to not vote for the stimulus package because it is written that those receiving unemployment benefits would receive an extra $600 a week . The max amount currently is around $326 I think I read. One of the senators gave an example that someone making $20 an hour ( 800 a week) would be eligible for 326 plus the 600 = 926 a week for not working . . This is crazy ! The dems had to have thrown that in there to make folks not want to go back to work, making the unemployment rate very high, thus decreasing Trumps chances of re-election. What do y’all think?

Phuck the Dems. That’s what I think

Unemployment only lasts for so long, then it's gone. Lot's of unemployed people right now who lost their job through no fault of their own. Trump's ratings have gone up because of the way he has handled this crisis.

anyone one 600/week unemployment is going to vote for trump because he is the one who got it for them, not no damn democrap.

I thought this might be a Democrat stunt to keep the unemployment numbers inflated. Perhaps it’s not.

I'm pretty confident that was what they were hoping for. ASSISTANCE should never pay more than what you can actually earn.

He said it, but it’s the truth

Yep. The goal isn’t to help, it’s to hinder those that got laid off from getting back in the work force. A lot of folks that were laid off from hourly wage positions would be better off riding unemployment as long as possible under that provision. The whole goal is to destroy the talking point Trump had of the low unemployment numbers with that provision. They need to scrap the whole thing and start over. If they can’t pass a clean bill at a time like this, then it’s time to kick the whole lot out of Congress.

My wife and I own a small business. I pretty much run it but she draws a paycheck and pays unemployment taxes. Theoretically, we could lay her off and she could draw unemployment of $600 plus her normal unemployment so she'd be raking in about $800 per week. I'm pretty sure there are no-no's for doing this and I'm sure we won't do it but it may be worth looking into.

yeah, but among us hasn't offered an unskilled laborer what he was worth only to be told he could make more on unemployment. That would increase it ten fold.

If I understand what you're saying, that is happening now. If you draw food stamps, welfare, and all the other perks of being a bum along with not having to pay daycare for multiple kids, why would you work for $7-8 per hour.

I’m just wondering if this is a permanent change to unemployment, or just a temporary change until things get back on track then go back to the $300. If it’s short term I could see why the Rep would’ve voted for it. They may be thinking this will end soon and it won’t be an influence not to work later on.

Unemployment isnt 326 max. In alabama its $265 max. Then you choose to have it taxed or not. So 265 is the most you can get. The ONLY people that can draw it are the ones that paid in enough yearly quarters. In other words, you had to been working for about 1.5yrs steady, paying taxes. The taxes you pay each paycheck goes towards it. Most never use it. It gets waisted in a way because thats your "just in case" money. The FICA on your pay stub is what it goes for. You can olny draw it for 6 months then it stops.

Im in excavating so i get rained out a lot. My employer turns the form we fill out and they give it to Montgomery. The 1st week is called a with holding week. The gov keeps it. All of it. You never get it back. It happens once a year. Not at the 1st of the year either. It is based off when your yearly quarters started. So they steal your 1st unemployment check. Thats your money you worked for. This aint no free ride. You cant draw it if you didnt earn it.

Got no problem with it, extrodinary times,calls for extraordinary measures.

it's a temporary change.

Gonna talk my grandad into laying me off 😃

Yep , if this is true I’m about to take a layoff and turkey hunt until I burn myself out on it 😀

Go for it, I would.

Just asking here because I haven’t read up on it. So, my wife that was working one day a week, making $240.00 a day (before taxes), but was laid off due to all this, can now make $600.00 per week unemployment if this passes? Insane.

Murica