This document provides information about unemployment insurance (UI) programs. It discusses the history and rationale for UI, how the programs are funded through employer taxes, who is eligible to receive benefits and how benefit amounts are determined. It also explains that UI programs are expanded during recessions through extended benefits. The document promotes the roles of the National Employment Law Project and UnemployedWorkers.org in advocating for extended UI benefits during times of high unemployment.
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Presentation drawn from my book, We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money, on how better fiscal policy can respond to surging top-end inequality, stagnant middle class incomes, and economic growth.
Liberals are on more voting buying as they try to convince people they will reduce poverty by 50% by 2030.
The problem is there many factors that drive poverty which cannot be fixed with one off policies!
Things may be moving slowly in the world of officialdom. But people are not always waiting for their governments to do everything in their daily lives. Despite bureaucratic service delivery systems, citizens find ways to get things done.
Twaweza works with the five networks to fuel flows of information, stories, and ideas to make it easier for people to get, make, and share information and ideas. Twaweza helps spread information about rights, laws and budgets, as well as information on how citizens compare with their neighbors. All of this has stimulated informed public debate.
A PowerPoint presentation by Mike Wilder, Community Coalition Organizer for Wisconsin Jobs Now, on the positive economic impact raising the minimum wage will have in Wisconsin (and everywhere in the country that adopts a higher minimum wage).
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1. Unemployment Insurance (UI)
Benefits:
The Essentials
UnemployedWorkers.org’s
Resource Guide
for the Unemployed
UnemployedWorkers.org
2. Thoughts from Past Presidents
“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its
human resources. Demoralization caused by vast
unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it
is the greatest menace to our social order.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society
until people who are willing to work have work. Work
organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.”
Bill Clinton
UnemployedWorkers.org
4. Why do we have unemployment benefits?
• First US UI program established in
1931 in Wisconsin. In 1935, Congress
passed the Social Security Act,
which also encouraged the creation
of state UI programs.
• First national UI program was
established in the United Kingdom in
1911.
UnemployedWorkers.org
5. Why do we have unemployment benefits?
• Before national programs were
established, labor unions and
municipalities had established local
and regional UI programs that gave
partial coverage.
• Governments enacted UI plans to
help individual workers through
periods of unemployment, but also to
minimize the negative impact of
unemployment on society.
UnemployedWorkers.org
7. Who gets benefits?
• no fault
• must have lost your previous job through 'no
fault' of your own after earning a minimum
amount of wages within the 18 months before
you lost the job.
• not eligible
• youth, farm labor, domestic workers, self
employed, contractors, informal sector,
freelancers, voluntary quits
• graphic needed: percentage of jobless eligible
for UI benefits over time
UnemployedWorkers.org
8. Best Use of Stimulus Funds
UnemployedWorkers.org
9. Best Use of Stimulus Funds
• When times are tough, governments
boost spending to stimulate the
economy. Cash to the unemployed is
an excellent method of delivering
that stimulus, in comparison to (what?
proof?)
• Most recipients of benefits receive
them for X months
UnemployedWorkers.org
10. Best Use of Stimulus Funds
• Republicans and Democrats have
historically supported extended
benefits AND stimulus spending
in a recession
• graphic: some illustration of how
$1 in UI spending results in $x
in helping the economy.
UnemployedWorkers.org
12. How is unemployment funded?
• Regular unemployment benefits are paid for by
taxes
• Point: We earn it. It’s not a “giveaway”
• ER’s pay a small tax to the Federal
Government which goes into a trust fund –
from this, states are allocated $ to run the
programs
• $56 per year plus a $14 surtax – not a lot
of money, but it goes a really long way
UnemployedWorkers.org
13. How is unemployment funded?
• ER’s also pay a tax to the state trust fund –- -this is the
money the states use to pay benefits
• Your payment is based on an “experience rating” – meaning
that employers who have more frequent turnover in workers
pay more per worker than those who don’t have a lot of
turnover. Want to reward employers who don’t “churn”
employees
• This is $ that ER’s look at in the bottom line of how much
each employee costs.
• So it is money that is part of your “compensation” even if you
never see it until you lose your job – in other words, this
isn’t a handout or welfare – it’s something you’ve EARNED.
UnemployedWorkers.org
14. Who is eligible?
&
How are benefits
determined?
UnemployedWorkers.org
15. Who is eligible?
• Lost job thru no fault of your own and did not
voluntarily quit for a disqualifying reason
• No misconduct and define what constitutes
misconduct
• Define voluntary quit and its basic exceptions
• Had sufficient earnings during the “base
period”
UnemployedWorkers.org
16. How are benefits determined?
• Base period is usually some portion of the last
18 months –want people who are sufficiently
connected to the workforce
• Continue to be able and available to work &
actively looking for work
• Designed to be a program to transition people
to a new job (not for people who decide to not
work)
UnemployedWorkers.org
18. What changes during a recession?
• When the unemployment rate goes above 6% in
your state, benefits are extended.
• These extended benefits are based on the
unemployment rate in your state and on other
factors.
• The unemployment programs differ from state
to state in meaningful ways.
• To fund extended benefits, Congress must pass
appropriate bills.
UnemployedWorkers.org
19. What changes during a recession?
• UI is the most effective economic stimulus
• People spend it right away – don’t pocket as
savings
• A federal dollar spent on Unemployment
benefits repeats as $x throughout the
economy. (CBO and Zandi multipliers/??)
UnemployedWorkers.org
20. What changes during a recession?
• EUC Need a table or graphic – the exact content
of this.
• Four tiers, -- tiers 1 and 2 for all states, tiers
3 and 4 for states with higher unemployment
UnemployedWorkers.org
21. What do the unemployed
want or need?
UnemployedWorkers.org
22. What do the unemployed want or need?
• A new job
• Help accessing and keeping benefits
• Information about the social safety net
• Paid training resources
• Participation in organizing efforts
• Help addressing social and emotional issues
UnemployedWorkers.org
24. Role of National Employment Law Project (NELP)
• The premiere policy organization that
addresses unemployment policy and
employment law generally.
• Leading the charge for extensions in
unemployment benefits during times of
high unemployment.
• Supporting changes in state unemployment
laws so that they protect more people
under more circumstances.
UnemployedWorkers.org
26. Role of UnemployedWorkers.org
• Our online community of jobless
workers looking for information on
accessing benefits
• Taking action for extended
unemployment benefits during the
recession
• Encouraging grassroots organizing
efforts by the unemployed, for the
unemployed
UnemployedWorkers.org
27. National Employment Law Project
&
UnemployedWorkers.org
Work to Extend UI Benefits
During the Recession
UnemployedWorkers.org
28. NELP & UnemployedWorkers.org
Work to Extend UI Benefits During the Recession
• Together, NELP and UW work to help America’s unemployed receive
benefits.
• How many receiving extended benefits now – more LT unemployed than
at any other time in last 5 decades. CAN we have numbers?
• How many will exhaust in months to come? Can we have numbers?
• Funding for extensions requires a fight in Congress
• some Members of Congress argue that unemployed are lazy
• need 60 votes in the Senate to pass
• unemployed need to make their voices heard
• What it means to take that money both away from the unemployed
and their families, but also from their communities
• Could lead to more job losses, foreclosures, etc. NUMBERS? Quotes?
UnemployedWorkers.org
30. Join Us!
• We have launched our campaign
to pass an unemployment
extension bill. Add your voice
here. (link)
• Congress listens to the voices of
the unemployed. Learn more at
Our Voices. (link)
UnemployedWorkers.org