Good! Cut the bonus payment they are receiving (which I think expires in July) that allows these folks to make more than what they made when they weren't sitting at home. Total stupidity there. Let them know that UE benefits are taxable and they'll be paying on them come April. Many don't know this and are usually shocked to find it out (we're not talking about the brightest of our population).
I agree. Our local businesses have started re-opening last Friday for business. Most have help wanted signs in the window since the staff they furloughed rather stay at home & earn more money each week with the federal $600 payment.... and there is no rule that they are required to come back to work now that their job is available.
People called back to work are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits, been that way forever. If those people are still owed money from said benefits they are entitled to them and should collect. There are people who have been unemployed and yet to receive benefits, I know a few. The system is failing those people and needs to be rectified pronto, but anyone called back to work will and should see those benefits stop.
Isn't anyone should be receiving that 600 bucks if they are called back to work. That's scamming the system, if people are doing so and needs to stop.
It appears that the way the recent federal legislation was written it implies that if furloughed employees are scared of COVId-19 then they don't need to return to work. Or at least it is open to this interpretation. The overload unemployment benefits system is a mess in most states. It is taking weeks to process claims, and many claims are improperly by recently hired contractors to handle the overload. Likewise the information being given out by recently hired contact-center employees at third party vendors is consistently incorrect.
I agree but many rather scam the system for more money than they would earn working. The unemployment system is not even keeping up with new claims - I doubt whether they will keep up with people who fail to return to work even when the employer reports it.
The system is a mess, that's for sure. Big boys get their money fast, little guys not so much. Business as usual. Legislation needs clarification if it's allowing people to refuse going back to work and still collect the 600. That's not right and there are plenty of people who will have no problem staying on that government tit forever while claiming some bullshit excuse. Field day for the lawyers.
I hope they find people who want to work, and I hope those sitting on their asses at home hoping the gravy train will continue (and why wouldn't they hope with the democrats promising more free money) find out what it means to have that gravy train stopped cold turkey.
On the good news front - our neighbor's college-aged child called the Hibachi place on Monday and they said they had hired the people they needed. She got a summer job though minutes later at a retail store in the same mall complex. So some progress is being made on hiring.
That's the problem when you just pull some number out of your ass and just apply it across the board. Better would have been just regular unemployment and debt relief/extensions on mortgages, car payments and the like. No perfect way to do it, and there would be people still hustling while others are hurting. It's a mess the way they did this. Again, my argument of too much, too fast. We may have gotten here anyway, but throttling it back rather than just killing the engine would have been an easier way to manage this.