North Carolina Unemployment Insurance Bill A ‘Grievous Blow’ To Families: Labor Secretary
Posted in: Today's ChiliWASHINGTON — The U.S. Labor Department has warned North Carolina legislators that their controversial plan to slash unemployment benefits will cost the state $780 million in federal funds and cast a “grievous blow” on the state’s working families.
“I have no discretion to stop it,” Seth Harris, the department’s acting secretary, said in a statement on the state losing eligibility for federal funding. “As a result, families struggling to secure their place in the middle class will suffer a grievous blow, and the state’s economy will lose $780 million in federal funds that are vital to reducing North Carolina’s high unemployment rate.”
As HuffPost has reported, the state’s lawmakers have been pushing a bill that would reduce the maximum weekly benefit for an unemployed worker from $530 to $350, as well as cut back their maximum duration to between 12 and 20 weeks. Due to federal guidelines, the cuts would mean that North Carolina could no longer take advantage of long-term unemployment insurance supplied by the federal government.
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