RW Logic on extending unemployment benefit

[stopbush]

Extending the $600 benefit is a disincentive for people to return to work, and so many people are returning to work that we don't need to extend the benefit.

Huh?

[Heartstrings]

1. So many businesses are only open at 25% capacity,

Restaurants for example. If a person refuses work, unemployment ends. If a person works 1-4 hour shift Per week making $100.00 in tips (wages are pitiful so not even worth mentioning here), how can they live?
Republicans just suck!

[captain queeg]

2. You can get unemployment while working reduced hours

I had a 40 hr a week job years ago and they had a downturn. A lot of people got let go but some of us went down to 2 days a week. We could file for unemployment and get partial UI payments based on what we’d have been getting at 40 hrs. I brought home a little more per week than what I’d have gotten if I was fully laid off and kept my benefits do it was a good deal. Provided you could expect to go back to full time. While I was working reduced hours and getting unemployment it was draining my UI account. If I got laid off completely my benefit wouldn’t last as long since I’d been taking money from my account. I don’t remember exactly how it all works but your benefit is based on a certain time period and how much you earned during that time period. And the reference quarters were sometime in the past, like a year ago or something. I was lucky and used my extra time off to look for a different job and found one. Of course right now is not a good time to be looking for a job.

[Wounded Bear]

3. If that's an incentive "not to work" perhaps wages are too low...

[handmade34]

4. you got that

my daughter is working full time (in health care- VA) and is bringing home only 1/2 of what many of her peers on unemployment are

something wrong here....

[stopbush]

5. $600 a week is equal to earning $15 an hour for 40 hours.

It’s basically the base amount American workers should be making, rather than the slave wage of $7.75 an hour currently prescribed by the law.