TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Senate will debate an unemployment insurance bill Thursday that will reduce benefits for many Kansans.
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A senate committee chaired by Wichita Senator Susan Wagle passed HB 2676 out of committee. They have tacked anti-worker provisions on to to a House measure designed to aid businesses with high unemployment tax cost. The Wagle bill would place a moratorium on the "waiting-week" benefits and eliminate spouse relocation benefits.
If the bill passes, Kansas workers will again be sentenced to serve a week of unemployment without receiving benefits. Unemployed workers can again expect to wait up to three weeks before receiving their first unemployment check.
A bill to give relief to businesses in these tough times has been hijacked to to cut benefits for unemployed workers. Talk about kicking people when they are down? That is what the bill does.
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Background:
- UI benefits help keep people in homes in mortgage or rent, it maintains their transportation in car loans and fuel, it keeps their homes warm in utility bills and UI benefits provides clothing and food for family members.
- This money is circulated right back in to the economy.
- For each dollar of unemployment benefits, there is a $2.15 boost to the economy.
- Historically, Kansas workers had to serve a one-week, non-payable waiting period for each new unemployment claim or benefit year.
- For new claims that are effective July 1, 2007, and after, the waiting
period was waived and payment made for workers laid off due to lack of work
because of any of the following:
- the employer terminated business operations in Kansas,
- the employer declared bankruptcy, or
- the employer indicated a layoff subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
- Also effective July 1, 2007, for workers not meeting the above three conditions, the waiting week will be paid after the worker has filed a weekly claim for benefits for the waiting week period and for each two consecutive weeks immediately following the waiting week.
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NO NEW TAXES - CUT TAXES - REDUCE GOVERNMENT BUDGETS
Those remedies to our financial chaos put very little money into circulation to purchase products that require labor to produce and distribute.
Cutting back on un-employment benefits and reducing other assistance programs cuts back on money available for consumer items. And, more importantly, money from those programs go back into the economy immediatly.