Performance artists rally in front of the the Massachusetts State House in Boston for extended FPUC, the extra $600 provided on top of unemployment during COVID-19 pandemic, on July 20, 2020.
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The new proposed $200 enhancement will work in the same way the previous $600 bonus from the CARES Act worked: Workers will receive their regular state-administered unemployment aid, which ranges from an average $497 in Washington to just $44 in Oklahoma on its own, and will get an additional $200 per week paid by the federal government on top.
What comes next, however, is different. The Republican proposal says that by October, the flat $200 federal boost will be replaced with a payment that, when combined with regular state benefits, will recover 70% of workers' previous wages. The replacement rate will be calculated either by a formula specified in the bill or by a state proposing an alternative method and receiving approval from the Secretary of Labor. That means the method of calculating a 70% replacement wage could vary by state. Boosts will be capped at $500 per week.
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Those punks put us completely out of work under false and misleading pretense. Now they want to replace 70% of our wages when they still have circumstances that make it impossible to work? B.S.
ReplyDeleteI guess 155,000 dead Americans is a false and misleading pretense...
ReplyDeleteActually it is 80 percent died of something else
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DeleteThank you - you are correct
10:11
Karen,
You are naive as a 2 year old child if you believe the official stats on this virus Psyop
Run scaredy cat run.
DeleteAll I hear is these bums wants the Feds to give them an extra $600 to sit around and do nothing. They are not pressuring their Politian on opening up the country so they can go back to work. Such hypocrites.
ReplyDeleteI don't hear them standing up for SENIORS and their SSI checks being cut because the government is spending it on other trash, possibly giving it to these bums.
Where is the SSI increase for Seniors?
What hypocrites. They want the government to give them $31,000 a year while most seniors are getting $18,000 or less a year.
10:46 overwhelmingly false. If you're going to argue against facts provide some proof to your statement.
ReplyDeleteFauci is finally owning the idiotic Representatives gunning against him because Trump said so.
ReplyDeleteAmen To That 10:58 !!!!!!...Hope They all Cant sleep at nite and always cant hold thier heads up when thay past ANY senior !!
ReplyDeleteSenate should have passed the HEROES Act that went through the House months ago. Anything they pass now will be too little too late.
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