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That is the sad truth and if we continually push the benefits out there is no reason for people to look for work.
What say you?
The government finds ways to screw everyone. The unemployment system itself encourages unemployment. But people also pay into it for years and and then when they want some of their money back they get hosed...
In 2010, New Jersey state unemployment insurance tax is based on the first $29,700 of wages (up slightly from the $28,900 cutoff used in the previous year). The starting rate for a new employer is 2.6825%.
Unlike most states, there is also an employee SUTA contribution of .43%, plus a workforce charge of .12%, resulting in a net employee charge of .55%.
After the first year, the rate is different for each employer, depending on past layoff history.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has conditionally vetoed a bill to limit the impact of an unemployment tax increase on businesses.
Christie said Thursday he wants changes to make it harder for people fired for misconduct to collect benefits. He also wants to establish a task force to study the fund's problems and recommend solutions.
The bill is basically designed to avert an automatic $400 per employee tax increase on businesses that would have been triggered July 1 because of the unemployment fund's insolvency. It calls for an increase of about $130 per worker instead.
But people also pay into it for years and and then when they want some of their money back they get hosed...
They would rather you lose your home than receive unemployment benefits YOU paid for. I don't understand these people. They think they would rather collect a paltry payment than work and get paid what they were used too? What kind of logic is that?
Right now, its hard (depending on where you live of course) to find employment. The jobs just are not there. They quote the unemployment numbers when they are trying to make the president look bad, but say to these guys, go find a job. ???
They think a person who is trying to find a job but cant is automatically a "welfare queen" and that is just wrong.
If you incorporated yourself and paid it then you would get it. Why would you expect to get it if you don't participate in the program?Good, unemployment "insurance" is a bad idea.
NO self employed folks get unemployment.
Why should anyone else?
Yeah...Nincompoop.She puts the N in the N-word.
Senate Republicans Kill Unemployment Measure | The State Column
Without looking into it too much I am on board with letting it die. If we do this yet again, when will it cease? Many people stop looking for work after they begin to draw until the benefits are coming close to an end. That is the sad truth and if we continually push the benefits out there is no reason for people to look for work.
What say you?
Senate Republicans Kill Unemployment Measure | The State Column
Without looking into it too much I am on board with letting it die. If we do this yet again, when will it cease? Many people stop looking for work after they begin to draw until the benefits are coming close to an end. That is the sad truth and if we continually push the benefits out there is no reason for people to look for work.
What say you?
What they need to do is cut spending in other areas to make up this $35 billion (or whatever it is) and have certain stipulations on receiving the benefits, like drug tests, or find some way to make sure people are actually looking for work.
Those low level occupations you speak of are just not available to most middle class workers that lose their job. Even low level jobs have requirements. No one hires a 50 year old office worker to dig ditches.They would rather you lose your home than receive unemployment benefits YOU paid for. I don't understand these people. They think they would rather collect a paltry payment than work and get paid what they were used too? What kind of logic is that?
Right now, its hard (depending on where you live of course) to find employment. The jobs just are not there. They quote the unemployment numbers when they are trying to make the president look bad, but say to these guys, go find a job. ???
They think a person who is trying to find a job but cant is automatically a "welfare queen" and that is just wrong.
Sometimes if a person can't find work it is because they wont take a job unless it is of a certain type, or in a certain field that suits them; something they are invested in. It may be better for some people to finally lose their home and be forced to move to another city where there are jobs in their desired occupational field; a move they would never make unless conditions precipitate that move.
That could be the best thing for them, rather than waiting for certain job openings that will never come. Too often maybe, people need to be forced to begin at a lower level occupation - maybe even working a second part time job until they get a raise - just so that they can get back into the game. Once back in the game they can be more comfortable, earning a check, while attempting to again find work in their desired field. That may never happen, but by having some work they have more leverage than as an unemployed person.
Don't they have constituents on unemployment? I mean seriously, aren't they in fact hurting the people who voted them in ?
Its called unemployment benefits because you paid for it with taxes. Its unemployment insurance.