The real party of NO, the GOP, steps it up

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so is this 13 month unemployment extension on TOP of the 99 weeks the unemployed already get?

No. The 13 month extension refers to how much longer the government will keep going up to 99 weeks.

I know for a fact that a lot of umemployed refuse to find a job that will pay them similar to what they are getting in unemployment. they can get a job that pays $300 per week.. but dont take it cause they'd rather make $300 per week by doing nothing.

Lazy people are lazy, and you won't change them. But I would hardly classify the vast majority of the currently unemployed that way.

I would imagine, considering that there are 5-8 unemployed for every job position, that few are coasting on that generous "below minimum wage equivalent" rather than working.

If you were making minimum wage, you don't get $300 a week. You get less than half that - and they take taxes out of it. If you were making $60,000 a year, you will get $250 or $300 a week. That's not very attractive when you used to make that in a day.

I'm sure some lazy people that only had a minimum wage job might be willing to try and live on $100 a week rather than work. But those folks are not getting $300 a week.

Unemployment only pays a small percentage of your income, as reported to the state for tax purposes in the previous year's time.

And unemployment doesn't require a CPA to take a job at McDonalds just to work.

Lazy mofo's.. i wonder how many people are committing fraud against the system. If uncle sam finds out that you dont apply for jobs cause you make the same with unemployment.. you should be forced to pay back every cent you collected plus 15% interest... or go to a Siberian work camp.

I doubt many of the current huge crop are. First off, the former employer gets a say on if a fired employee gets unemployment.