SFROMAN
SILVER Star
My sister is a social worker for the state of Texas. Her main job is to determine welfare benefits for folks that need it ( just for context).
anyway, she was telling me that with the current unemployment benefits folks are making way more money than a lot of folks deemed essential employees who are on minimum wage.
To give you an idea. Minimum wage workers make $7.25 in Texas. So FTE working 30 hours a week = $218 a week ( note - most employers do not allow minimum wage employees (MWE) to work more than 30 hours so they don’t qualify for other benefits like health insurance) but even if they allowed the MWE work 40 hours it would equal to $290 per week and $1,160 per month. A lot of employees that are considered “essential” fall under this category.
With the current unemployment benefits currently in place due to COVID unemployment benefits can reach up to 800 per week. That equals to $20 per hour if that employee works 40 hours a week.
so now a lot of these people are making three times as much money to not work than they did while working and making three times as much as people having to work because they are considered “essential”.
By the way the $800 is not just money. Most of the time it is a combination of food stamps and money just to clarify.
Anyway, I found the conversation interesting and thought I would share here.
anyway, she was telling me that with the current unemployment benefits folks are making way more money than a lot of folks deemed essential employees who are on minimum wage.
To give you an idea. Minimum wage workers make $7.25 in Texas. So FTE working 30 hours a week = $218 a week ( note - most employers do not allow minimum wage employees (MWE) to work more than 30 hours so they don’t qualify for other benefits like health insurance) but even if they allowed the MWE work 40 hours it would equal to $290 per week and $1,160 per month. A lot of employees that are considered “essential” fall under this category.
With the current unemployment benefits currently in place due to COVID unemployment benefits can reach up to 800 per week. That equals to $20 per hour if that employee works 40 hours a week.
so now a lot of these people are making three times as much money to not work than they did while working and making three times as much as people having to work because they are considered “essential”.
By the way the $800 is not just money. Most of the time it is a combination of food stamps and money just to clarify.
Anyway, I found the conversation interesting and thought I would share here.
