There Has Been a Mind-Boggling Amount of Unemployment Fraud Since the CARES Act Passed
Enhanced unemployment benefits may have helped many Americans weather the pandemic, but they've also attracted the interest of some modern-day Willie Suttons.
Enhanced unemployment benefits may have helped many Americans weather the pandemic, but they've also attracted the interest of some modern-day Willie Suttons.
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The negative impact of the program is well documented.
Though the unemployment insurance benefits boost eased the immediate pain of shuttering much of the economy, it made it harder to get things moving again.
If Congress extends boosted temporary unemployment benefits into early 2021, nearly five out of every six beneficiaries would be earning more money by not working.
Businesses need to be able to adjust to a world where COVID-19 remains an ongoing concern.
The new bill includes another round of stimulus checks for all Americans, funds additional coronavirus testing, and spends billions to bail out states and government agencies straining under pension debt.
Much about the COVID-19 outbreak has been unprecedented and historic, but until now it's been difficult to quantify exactly how serious a blow the virus would deal to the U.S. economy.
Basic Income/Negative Income Tax
The basic-income scheme is meant to save Finland money and reduce the country's high unemployment rate.
Does a new NBER study prove that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment?
Bureaucrats can't get act together enough to recover huge sums in overpaid unemployment benefits.
Says they're hard workers
Criticizes for blocking them
May threaten its passage
Would provide 31 additional weeks in exchange for cuts elsewhere
$7.7 billion in improper payments in 2013
Some will vote against it after having voted for it
Despite some lawmakers not being in Washington, D.C.
Needs support from five Republicans to avoid a filibuster on a plan to extend the benefits for three months
A bipartisan Senate proposal would reinstate jobless benefits for three months
Another three months
So give her more money
466,000 Californians are on unemployment benefits
Affects 80,000 people and could take weeks to resolve
They're an expensive counter-incentive to work
$24 million in total
After falling more than expected the previous week