Monthly Archives: July 2020

How the Senate GOP Bill Would Affect Unemployment Benefits

The change would greatly affect low-income workers, who represent a disproportionate number of those who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican Party’s unrestricted proposal calls for cutting the weekly federal improvement to unemployment benefits to $ 200 over the next two months, below the $ 600 the …

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Competitive billing claims to address impending Social Security and Medicare insolvency in the Republican Party coronavirus package

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Friday that a bipartisan commission-setting bill that would recommend changes to address the impending insolvency in federal trust funds will be in the Republicans’ new coronavirus package. . among Democrats who denounced it as a “back door cut” for Medicare and Social Security, …

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