Extending extra unemployment benefits through executive order 'would really be a nightmare'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Trump signed several executive orders to address various issues related to the coronavirus pandemic after negotiations with Congressional Democrats over a new stimulus bill fell apart.

The immediate implications of the executive orders are unclear, and the unilateral route may be particularly messy when it comes to extending extra unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that expired after July.

“An executive order [on extra unemployment benefits] would really be a nightmare,” Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, told Yahoo Money. “It would just end up resulting in people thinking they're getting a benefit but states being unable to figure out how to do it in many cases.”

Evermore said that enacting extra UI benefits through an executive order would take even longer than Congressional legislation — which experts say would take weeks to implement — because states can only administer benefits defined under the Social Security Act or by Congress. Benefits issued by an executive order aren’t authorized by the Employment and Training Administration, which manages unemployment compensation services for the Labor Department.

https://money.yahoo.com/coronavirus-stimulus-extra-unemployment-benefits-executive-order-183132419.html

[Laelth]

1. That's comforting (somewhat). Thank you for posting this. n/t

-Laelth

[Hoyt]

2. So states are going to say sorry unemployed, but we can't pay you the extra

$300 (or $400) a week the US Treasury is ready to send our state because of the SSA or Constitution. That won’t go over well.

Congress is going to have to pass a bill that AT LEAST provides what trump “promised,” perhaps without the Payroll tax BS.

[crickets]

3. donnie doesn't really want the unemployment benefits extended, but

if they must go out, he wants all the credit for it. It's pathological micromanagement.

[sarcasmo]

4. Trump's plan all along, nightmare on purpose.

[Blue_true]

5. The Employment and Training Administration already has a template of people that

get the benefit, since it has been paying it out for 2+ months.

This is setting up to be a clusterfuck.

Some states haven’t even paid their citizens the state UE benefits that they are due. Why expect those states to somehow get money to people that need it?