After talking with a few family members about the gamut of unemployment benefits, it does seem to work best for those that have no real interest in working.
To keep getting the benefits, one must avoid applying for a job where they might receive a real job offer in return, ie: "Sure, we would love you to come and wash dishes at our diner!"
When one is out of work, their 'job' is to find a job, not to work the system so that they continue eating out of the government trough.
Extending benefits, might have felt good for congress critters, but in the long run, all it really did is to benefit a bunch of scammers.
Seriously, I know a lot of good folks that are having trouble finding work and some of them have taken employment for many dollars less than they used to earn. My hat is off to them.
If I was an employer hiring, I would have to look twice at an applicant that said they took benefits for 98 weeks. It means they walked away from work, because though it is slim, it is still out there.
There are an awful lot of those jobs out there that won’t hire you if they feel you are ‘overqualified’, though. I spent over a year out of work and was applying for any position I could physically do, but got that answer so many times that they would love to hire me, but I was just too overqualified.