Breaking: GOP considering extending unemployment benefit at reduced level

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[Daenerys 6,274]

$400 is better than nothing. I know a few people who lost really good jobs that are relying on the CARES act to help hold them up. They’re self employed so their benefits are only $104 a week and with the state shut down again it doesn’t look like they can even go back to work. 

[Doot 2]

Expecting people in America to live on $400 a month. 

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4 minutes ago, Doot said:

Expecting people in America to live on $400 a month. 

Richest country on earth 

[Nickypie101 1,591]

7 minutes ago, Doot said:

Expecting people in America to live on $400 a month. 

it’s actually every 2 weeks, rn it’s perfect my regular benefits are 160 and the extra 600 means I get about 1,500 a week, for some that’s none but I live at home with no bills so I’m enjoying saving

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5 minutes ago, Nickolas724 said:

it’s actually every 2 weeks, rn it’s perfect my regular benefits are 160 and the extra 600 means I get about 1,500 a week, for some that’s none but I live at home with no bills so I’m enjoying saving

NeverMind I read the article wrong yeah this would be tragic, on an extra 100 a week compared to 600 yikes 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,563]

33 minutes ago, Doot said:

Expecting people in America to live on $400 a month. 

I thought it was every week? Regardless this decrease is gonna make it a lot harder for people to get by now. Despicable. 

EDIT: what

What

WHAT

$400 A MONTH. $100 A WEEK?! WHO IS SUPPOSED TO LIVE ON THAT?!? 

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2 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

I thought it was every week? Regardless this decrease is gonna make it a lot harder for people to get by now. Despicable. 

Perhaps I misread but I thought it said from $2400 a month to $400 a month. 

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1 minute ago, Doot said:

Perhaps I misread but I thought it said from $2400 a month to $400 a month. 

No it really went down from $600/wk to $100/wk I’m LITERALLY screamingfgjdjdjf Republicans are gonna secure a 1932 style landslide loss and it’s gonna be so delicious. 

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Just now, StarstruckIllusion said:

No it really went down from $600/wk to $100/wk I’m LITERALLY screamingfgjdjdjf Republicans are gonna secure a 1932 style landslide loss and it’s gonna be so delicious. 

His administration right now

[StarstruckIllusion 53,563]

3 minutes ago, Doot said:

His administration right now

No, they’re happy asf they get to save money for their rich parasites, and believe their crushing loss in the polls rn are fake. 
This is more accurate:

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Trump will send more US FED to Us cities ..start with Seattle  now many more on the way to Chicago 

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8 minutes ago, Doot said:

Perhaps I misread but I thought it said from $2400 a month to $400 a month. 

 

15 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

I thought it was every week? Regardless this decrease is gonna make it a lot harder for people to get by now. Despicable. 

EDIT: what

What

WHAT

$400 A MONTH. $100 A WEEK?! WHO IS SUPPOSED TO LIVE ON THAT?!? 

my housemate is on unemployment and the $2400 a month figure comes from the extra $600/week under the care act. So for the past few months people are receiving their normal unemployment benefit (based on how much their previous job paid) and then an additional $600 on top of that. So my housemate is making $1000 a week when she used to make ~$400 a week when she was working. A lot of young people are actually making a lot more than when they were working. So it looks like they might reduce that extra $600/week to $100/week. 

This also made me realize how underpaid I am since my sisters and friends aren't working and they are making more money than me now at my full time job 

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6 minutes ago, lifeasgeorge said:

 

my housemate is on unemployment and the $2400 a month figure comes from the extra $600/week under the care act. So for the past few months people are receiving their normal unemployment benefit (based on how much their previous job paid) and then an additional $600 on top of that. So my housemate is making $1000 a week when she used to make ~$400 a week when she was working. A lot of young people are actually making a lot more than when they were working. So it looks like they might reduce that extra $600/week to $100/week. 

This also made me realize how underpaid I am since my sisters and friends aren't working and they are making more money than me now at my full time job 

Thank you for clarifying this for everyone. Y’all it’ll be $100 a week in addition to the benefits someone would’ve received before corona. So people will still be getting $400 more a month than they would’ve pre-corona. 
 

I know this might sound shitty, but I’m a nurse, I work 12 hours shifts wearing masks and gowns and the whole gambit, and I can’t even get a vacation day off. I’m making less than people are getting from unemployment right now. 

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2 minutes ago, Tempest said:

Thank you for clarifying this for everyone. Y’all it’ll be $100 a week in addition to the benefits someone would’ve received before corona. So people will still be getting $400 more a month than they would’ve pre-corona. 
 

I know this might sound shitty, but I’m a nurse, I work 12 hours shifts wearing masks and gowns and the whole gambit, and I can’t even get a vacation day off. I’m making less than people are getting from unemployment right now. 

This is honestly the biggest sting, people who are still working through the pandemic are not only risking their own health but making less money than people sitting at home and doing nothing. It really doesn't make ANY sense. I think that frontline workers should be receiving this weekly bonus TBH.