I’m in the boat who’s saying if you’re even considering extending the PUA ‘bonus’ money, also grant it to those who become fully employed. I think you’d see an explosion of people taking jobs when they aren’t dancing around the $223 income limit per week. Earn $224, that’s all you get that week. Earn $223, you get a dollar from the state and $600 from the feds.
Right now that’s a huge hurdle: lower income folks sit around and get given $768 a week PUA benefits for doing nothing, get a job, get $500 a week from working, $268 a week cut in ‘income.’
Make it $300 a week ‘bonus’ if you get a full time job and I bet a whole lot of people would suddenly find full time employment.
Where I live, I know people living on less than $800 a MONTH Soc Sec.