Covid relief bill pays extra $300 a week in jobless benefits, extends aid for 4 months

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A Covid relief package released by a bipartisan group of senators Monday night would pay unemployed workers an extra $300 a week and extend jobless benefits for four months.

These unemployment provisions are in line with a draft legislative framework the group released last week.

The $300 weekly enhancement to benefits would not be retroactive. The federal government would pay the subsidy for any period of unemployment from Dec. 26 until April 19.

That weekly subsidy would follow two prior stipends paid by the federal government: a $600 boost provided by the CARES Act through July, and a $300 Lost Wages Assistance payment created by President Donald Trump with federal disaster-relief funds.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/covid-relief-bill-pays-extra-dollar300-a-week-in-jobless-benefits-extends-aid-for-4-months/ar-BB1bWOdn?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnbfcL

[brush]

1. Stingy bastards. Like covid is going to over in 4 months...

and just $300?

[secondwind]

2. I read this differently. "An extra 300 a week".

Did I read this wrong?

[JCMach1]

6. Not in addition if your benefits have run out. Most will have

If you have been out of work since March, or April...

[Demsrule86]

31. It extends UI...

[brush]

5. That's a 50% cut from the $600. And the virus crisis certainly will not...

be over in four months. Then what, battle with McTurtle and the republicans all over again?

The Speaker passed a relief bill in May for a bit more than 2 trillion and McTurtle did nothing and now this bill is being negotiated for $900 billion, thus the big cut.

[durablend]

11. Wait until states start shaking down recipients

There's already many people who either never received benefits at all or are being forced to repay thousands in overpayments. The extra $300 isn't going to help them either.

[brush]

12. I know, it's effed up all the way around.

[Demsrule86]

30. The House bill is far superior except it will never pass...we get what we can.

People will starve otherwise or freeze to death.

[Demsrule86]

20. Better than nothing which is the alternative.

[wryter2000]

3. And we probably won't get anything more

They really, really suck.

At least, if we win in Georgia, more relief bills will make it to the floor. Then, they'll have to filibuster it.

[Demsrule86]

28. If we win Georgia, we can improve on any bill. But if we don't win Georgia. at least with a bill now

we won't see Americans starving in the streets...Republicans don't care. We must pass a bill.

[BarackTheVote]

7. What about people who don't qualify for UI?

[Nexus2]

8. "Stimulus Checks" have been completely forgotten I guess? (nt)

[Nexus2]

14. Yeah, the only ones in the Senate that seems to be pushing for it are AOC and Bernie Sanders (nt)

[W_HAMILTON]

16. Yeah, no.

And AOC isn't in the Senate.

[Calculating]

13. Yup

Screw the people who are still working, let's give more money to corporations and people not working.

[Demsrule86]

21. Of course people who are unemployed need money. I would like to see a better bill but we don't have

a choice. And how have people on Social Security been affected? And if you are working you have income...

[Turin_C3PO]

25. Unemployed

are who need it most. There should be a direct check to everyone but unemployment is most critical because those are the people who won't have any income.

[Demsrule86]

27. Exactly. UI has ended for some here in Ohio and it is devastating.

[Autumn]

23. Joe Manchin has negotiated a $600 one time payment to those under a certain income.

No info on what that magic income might be or if it has to be paid back.

[Demsrule86]

26. That bill does not include UI which is way more important than a single $600.00 check.

[Autumn]

34. According to CBS it includes an additional $300 per week on UI for 16 weeks.

No information if that includes people who have lost their UI because it has ran out.

[LizBeth]

9. I have one more week of UI and now I wonder if I am going to be kicked off a week before that Dec 26

deadline. This is horrible that we are sitting here up in the air and have no way to ask questions (can't get thru to UI on the phone) and see if McConnell will allow it on the floor.

And those talking about not enough, I would just like an extension so i am not kicked off let a lone 600. We just need to quit messing around and get it done.

[Luz]

15. I'm right there too. I can file once more then i fall off. The

anxiety is killing me and the millions of others in this boat.
It's just me and my SO, so we'll get by somehow.
My heart goes out to those families with kids.

[LizBeth]

19. Can we not file for two weeks, holding that last payment or do we get kicked off when we do not file

in a week. we need to get the info. Since I am on the same timeline as so many, I would imagine it is playing out the same with a lot of people.

[Luz]

22. I'm going to keep filing until they tell me to stop. 😕

[LizBeth]

32. Oregon is pretty good keeping me informed, I have hooked up for new info. Can't get thru the phone.

I started calling this morning,. I want to find out if I can hold off filing that last week or see if I can get info. If I hear anything by Friday I will come back to th9is post and let you know.

[hamsterjill]

29. Same situation with me.

I haven’t been able to get any answers. It’s very stressful.

[LizBeth]

33. Very stressful. Ridiculously so. I mean, am I going to sink and drown in a week or get a buoy.

As I told a poster above, I am try8ing to get thru to find the info but can't talk to anyone on the phone. I will keep hunting for info and let you know if I hear anything, by Friday, before submitting that last payment.

[hamsterjill]

35. I'm trying to find a job!

There simply aren’t any right now. It infuriates me that these rich assholes don’t give a damn about ordinary, hard working people. I’m 62 and I’ve worked since I was 15 years old. Literally. I deserve (we all deserve!!!) better than this.

[LizBeth]

36. Same position and me too but I am restricting to more my experience in acct/admn that

would be less risky than customer service at my old age. But it is the old age that keeps me out of the safer jobs. Yes. Ironic, yes.

[pecosbob]

17. The bill would let the AG fine anyone $50,000 for bringing coronavirus related lawsuits

The Senate proposal not only grants corporate lawsuit immunity...it gets better.

Empower the United States Attorney General to deem coronavirus-related lawsuits from workers, customers and attorneys “meritless” and then file civil actions against them as retribution. In order to “vindicate the public interest,” courts would be allowed to fine respondents up to $50,000.

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/senate-proposal-would-retroactively

If my Dem Senator voted for anything that included this I would see them primaried by God.

[Demsrule86]

24. It is temporary...and does 20 million Americans starving have no affect on you? Right now people go

to work sick so as not to lose their jobs...it is desperate. We have to make a deal. As for primarying Democrats, consider we barely have the house...and if we lose the house the GOP is set up for stealing the election in 2024 in Congress. We have no choice...can't let millions starve or end up homeless.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. This is huge!

$300 a week in UE and extending it another 17 weeks is a life savor for people. The PUA benefit right now is $160 a week. $460 a week is the different between making it and not making it for millions.

My wife is one of these people, that $300 extra a week will save us from some real financial hardship. And it would get her through to late Spring.