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RandySF

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Mon Mar 6, 2023, 05:44 PM Mar 2023

AZ: Senate passes bill to cut unemployment benefits

Senate Republicans want to slash the number of weeks an individual can receive unemployment payments and tie the length of benefit availability to the unemployment rate, but critics say that even if jobs are plentiful, it can still be a long process to find a good one.

Currently, Arizonans who qualify for unemployment can receive up to 24 weeks of benefits when the unemployment rate is 5% or less. The proposal by Phoenix Republican Sen. Steve Kaiser would slash that time in half, to 12 weeks, if the previous quarter’s unemployment rate was 5% or less.

The measure, Senate Bill 1167, cleared the Arizona Senate on March 2 by a vote of 16-14, along party lines. It next moves to the House of Representatives for consideration.

If it becomes law, the bill calls for incremental increases in the length of benefits, based on the previous quarter’s unemployment rate. It would add two weeks of payments for every half-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate until it reached 20 weeks for an unemployment rate of 8.5%.




https://www.azmirror.com/2023/03/02/senate-passes-bill-to-cut-unemployment-benefits/

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AZ: Senate passes bill to cut unemployment benefits (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2023 OP
Go for it..republican do nothings in AZ house and senate.. asiliveandbreathe Mar 2023 #1

asiliveandbreathe

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1. Go for it..republican do nothings in AZ house and senate..
Mon Mar 6, 2023, 06:26 PM
Mar 2023

If it isn't bipartisan ..it isn't a bill..

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs holds a veto stamp used by the state's last Democratic governor, Janet Napolitano. The stamp was a gift after Hobbs won election to the state's top office in 2022. Some say Gov. Hobbs may surpass Gov Napolitanos 79 vetoes...



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