He paid into the system when he was working. He can draw on it when he becomes unemployed. That’s how it works. OK, so if you hit lotto or your rich uncle dies, etc. maybe you shouldn’t file a claim. Perhaps many people did not, I don’t know.
But it’s pretty amazing how the entire dem/left program seems to be based on taking away money from those who have earned it and giving it to those who have not.
And they are d*mn proud of it, too.
“Perhaps many people did not, I don’t know.”
I have lost employment a couple times in my life when I could have drawn unemployment and did not. At those times I was ‘too proud’ to claim it. If it were now, I would make the claim...I ‘earned’ it. And it was paid for by my employer.
I also feel very strongly that my Social Security ‘benefits’ are/were earned. My employer and I paid for the ‘benefits’ now being received. Had I been able to have that combined benefit put into a retirement account that paid real dividends, I would have much more in that account than I will ever see in what I get from Soc Sec. And there would still be a significant principle to pass on to heirs.
This would be bad for the way Govt works, of course, because there would be no FICA payments for them to steal and put into the general fund.