The Senate GOP unveiled its proposed plan for handling expanded unemployment benefits in the next round of virus-relief legislation. In an interview with Bloomberg Law, Bob Robenalt discusses how the proposed plan replaces the across-the-board unemployment supplement with a more complex model linked to a person’s prior wages. The article points out that this part of the impending legislation is divisive because when it comes to unemployment, some would prefer to maintain a flat supplement while others prefer a percentage-based model like the one in the GOP’s proposal. Bob shared his reaction to the divided response by explaining that “[i]t’s just a difficult dilemma…[i]t’s hard to handicap whether one is better than the other.”
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