Althea
Althea told me...
Each state is different, but highly skilled workers can get app. $450/week in UI benefits, with a $300 bump from the Feds. But these people typically make more than that at work.That's the whine that all restaurants and other low-paying businesses are using these days. The reality is when stuff was closed, ppl found other jobs that paid better.
I visited my daughters in Vermont a couple of weeks ago. We went to downtown Burlington where they have a lovely open-air mall that's city streets mostly closed to traffic. It was super busy on Saturday afternoon. We saw sign after help-wanted sign. One pizza place was offering $15/hour for servers, $18/hr. for cooks, and $20/hr for shift managers. No one's getting *that* much money on unemployment.
The average person in the top UI states get app. $15/hr by sitting home until Sept.
Edit...Vt. is one of the lowest paying states in the northeast