The Treasury Secretary said a furloughed worker who gets a job offer would be ineligible for unemployment benefits. But that's not always the case, experts said.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a furloughed employee who is called back to work would be ineligible for unemployment benefits.
Mnuchin's claim isn't necessarily true due to criteria laid out by the CARES Act. States may vary in their interpretations.Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, speaks during a virtual Senate Banking Committee hearing seen on a laptop computer in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified on the $2.2 trillion virus rescue package passed by the Congress in March.
The Treasury secretary said Tuesday that workers wouldn't be able to continue getting unemployment benefits if they were to refuse a job offer. "If [businesses] offer back a worker and they don't take that job, they will be required to notify the local unemployment insurance agency because that person will no longer be eligible for unemployment," Mnuchin said in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.Mnuchin's claim — that a worker refusing a job offer would be ineligible for unemployment benefits — is generally correct.
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