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Almost 2,400 people who received unemployment insurance in 2009 lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The report was released after about 1.1 million people exhausted their jobless benefits during the second quarter of 2012, when more than 4.6 million filed initial unemployment claims. Eliminating those payments to high earners is one idea being considered as U.S. lawmakers struggle to curb a projected $1.1 trillion deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, with the nationwide jobless rate at 8.1 percent.

“Sending millionaires unemployment checks is a case study in out-of-control spending,” U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, said in an e-mail. “Providing welfare to the wealthy undermines the program for those who need it most while burdening future generations with senseless debt.”

The 2,362 people in millionaire homes represent 0.02 percent of the 11.3 million U.S. tax filers who reported unemployment insurance income in 2009, according to the August report. Another 954,000 households earning more than $100,000 during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression also reported receiving unemployment benefits.

The reported benefits may include those received by spouses or dependents of people who made high incomes, or benefits received earlier in the year before a household member got a high-paying job.
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Thats an angle to consider....on the other side of the coin....they worked, they paid with their taxes, and they earned the benefit....

What of those that don't work, won't work and have no intention of ever working that receive so many other benefits....?

And don't tell me that there ain't none of those.....I know some personally....more then satisfied to be on the dole for as long as it lasts....
 
UE isn't welfare, you pay into it as an insurance policy. as much as it seems unfair, they did pay the taxes for it, so why should they not be eligible to get the insurance when they are UE?
 
gone said:
UE isn't welfare, you pay into it as an insurance policy. as much as it seems unfair, they did pay the taxes for it, so why should they not be eligible to get the insurance when they are UE?
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Holy crap. I agree with you on this.
 
FactsRStubborn said:
They paid into the system. Why shouldnt they get it?
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well, actually....employers pay into the system, not employees......and the extensions that the federal government added over the last four years have not been paid for by anyone yet, including the federal government.....they just printed the money and sent themselves an IOU......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
well, actually....employers pay into the system, not employees......and the extensions that the federal government added over the last four years have not been paid for by anyone yet, including the federal government.....they just printed the money and sent themselves an IOU......
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No. They both pay into the system.
 
bravo said:
Thats an angle to consider....on the other side of the coin....they worked, they paid with their taxes, and they earned the benefit....

What of those that don't work, won't work and have no intention of ever working that receive so many other benefits..
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Unemployment is based on a three quarter period of work. Not including the last two, I believe. If you don't work you don"t get unemployment.
 
Bijou said:
It must be time for one of us to die. :rofl2:
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yes, it's fair. what yurt said earlier. it's not welfare.

(well actually, in liberal minds, it is, just a clever trick to redistribute wealth, and now that it's not doing what they intended, they complain)

basically,

:dealwithit:
 
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