Tuberville was paid $5 million to quit. Now he says $600 is too much for you. (Kyle Whitmire/al.com)
Updated Aug 06, 2020; Posted Aug 06, 2020
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Instead, he should do it for the experience so the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate can understand how unemployment benefits really work. As Tubervilles appearance on a talk radio show this week revealed, he needs an education.
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Only when I needed it, did I realize what we seldom talk about unemployment benefits are an involuntary insurance program that we pay into through payroll taxes. But like private insurance, when the employees turn into the payee, the other side of the transaction can get awfully stingy.
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But maybe the most important thing Tuberville would learn if he applied for benefits is that, if you quit your last job because you didnt like it anymore and you couldnt get along with your bosses, you dont get any benefits.
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And even though his contract wasnt done when he quit, Auburn paid him more than $5 million to not work.
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Also, he still qualified for retirement benefits under the state pension fund. According to his disclosures, he still gets $57,638 a year from the Retirement Systems of Alabama.
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underpants
(182,279 posts)Thats one element that no one will mention. Poor ass red states are more then raking it in. Aside from massively expensive COL places ...where people live and money is made (taxes paid).... compare $600 in Al Abama vs say Tidewater Virginia or Tulsa or Colorado let alone Alaska or Hawaii
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)or my friends that are struggling.