Unemployed Americans would see a big cut in benefits but no incentive bonus to return to work, under a bill unveiled by Senate Republicans
The change would most greatly affect low-income workers, who make up a disproportionate number of those who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.The all-stick, no-carrot GOP proposal calls for slashing the weekly federal enhancement to unemployment benefits to $200 for the next two months, down from the $600 that the jobless had received since April.
Just adding the extra $600 took states weeks to set up, and many agencies say that basing an enhancement on individual workers' wages would be much more difficult to implement.The Republican opening offer differs sharply from the House Democrats' bill, which would extend the $600 payment into early next year.Driving the GOP proposal is the concern that many workers were making more on unemployment benefits than they did in wages and would not want to go back to their jobs.
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