Should Congress and Obama create a Tier V EUC? (Emegency Unemployment Compensation)

Let me put it this way, one interview in a two year time frame, and I'm still unemployed and now no unemployment. What would you do?

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.


In Washington state I have deductions I have to declare to the IRS. :/

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.


In Washington state I have deductions I have to declare to the IRS. :/



I pay WA residents every week and I can 100% guarantee you that there is NO UNEMPLOYMENT deducted out of their paychecks. Yes to Fed Income Tax, Medicare and Social Security Tax (FICA), Workers Compensation Insurance, but NO unemployment tax out of employee W-2 wages.

In Washington state I have deductions I have to declare to the IRS. :/

I pay WA residents every week and I can 100% guarantee you that there is NO UNEMPLOYMENT deducted out of their paychecks. Yes to Fed Income Tax, Medicare and Social Security Tax (FICA), Workers Compensation Insurance, but NO unemployment tax out of employee W-2 wages.

I voted NO only because there was not a "HELL NO" option.

You seem to think that the government generates income. Where do you think the money comes from?

How long do we create more new tiers? Why not make unemployment benefts indefinite? At what point do we cut it off?

You can't seriously tell me there are no jobs to be found. The problem is that unemployment benefts pay more than a lot of jobs pay. So people like yourself would rather stay on the system than work.

If you are working, even flipping burgers, you are in front of employed people. If you display good work ethic people notice. It's called networking and you can't do it sitting on your sofa.

The only way to generate more money for unemployment is to raise taxes on working people. Raise their taxes and more people will lose their jobs and have to file for unemployment, demanding even more money. We have to break the cycle.

Quit posting on the internet and GO GET A JOB!

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.


In Washington state I have deductions I have to declare to the IRS. :/



I pay WA residents every week and I can 100% guarantee you that there is NO UNEMPLOYMENT deducted out of their paychecks. Yes to Fed Income Tax, Medicare and Social Security Tax (FICA), Workers Compensation Insurance, but NO unemployment tax out of employee W-2 wages.

A lot of the jobs that were lost were supported by the housing, finance and consumer spending bubble.

That bubble has burst and those jobs are not going to come back.

But people sit around on unemployment, refusing to retrain or start over in a new career.

In the 2-plus years these people have been on unemployment they could have gotten retrained (at government expense) in a totally new trade or they could have a 2-year college degree.

We can't afford the 10-billion-plus per month that the unemployment checks are costing us. That will break our budget faster than anything else if we don't stop it soon.

We've already paid unemployment too long and are bankrupting the country.

It's irrellevant when the laws were made. If the Constitution does not specifically authorize it, then it shouldn't be part of the fed gov law. That goes for about 99% of the laws the gov pass (no research on that number, but stated for dramatic effect.)

I think we need to change the whole entire system. Letting it crash would not be a pretty sight, but it may be the best chance to fix things.

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.

I know people who are on extended unemployment. It seems as though they are waiting for this recession to end as reported by our media. The media gives these people false hope with their bullshit Washington stats.
We all know that it is a depression and will last for many years. These unemployed need to learn to fend for themselves instead of being propped up by wishful thinking.
Yes , lets give them extended unemployment a while longer but with that you must tell them the truth. There will be no recovery for years- start finding a new way to survive even if it's holding a sign that says ," Will WORK for food!"

I'm one of these unemployment... going to nursing school fulltime. once done, I'll be EMPLOYED.. but I need to pay the bills till then... just 8 more months till graduation!

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.

Here is a suggestion for the young blood suckers living and leaching off their parents. They all should be forced into the military, anyone of them that does not have a job or thinks, they can bumb off someone else. Right now any single male or female that isn't working should be drafted.
Its no fun living with someone elses 28 year old bumb adult child that acts like he needs his mommy to change his diaper, and can't grow up.

OP and anyone else still confused:

EMPLOYEES DO NOT PAY ANYTHING OUT OF THEIR PAYCHECKS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!!

That money paid into the State and Federal unemployment insurance fund comes only from the employer. Each employer is taxed a computed rate (based on their previous unemployment experience)that is a percentage of their total wages paid to their employees. The more money employees are paid, the more money only employers pay into the unemployment fund. Again, the employee has nothing deducted out of their paycheck for unemployment insurance.

I am a payroll administrator for multiple states and Canada. The above is the biggest misunderstanding about unemployment.

Here is a suggestion for the young blood suckers living and leaching off their parents. They all should be forced into the military, anyone of them that does not have a job or thinks, they can bumb off someone else. Right now any single male or female that isn't working should be drafted.
Its no fun living with someone elses 28 year old bumb adult child that acts like he needs his mommy to change his diaper, and can't grow up.