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Like I said: >Certainly there will be some people who do it, but you would basically have to commit fraud to do it. Also the extra unemployment benefits expir
by slg 6y ago
Like I said:
>Certainly there will be some people who do it, but you would basically have to commit fraud to do it.
Also the extra unemployment benefits expired so anyone still doing this is not making more than they would at their job. Their only incentive to continue this fraud is for their own personal safety. You can't call a preference for one's own personal safety "perverse".
- abfan1127 6y agoWhile it wasn't my statement, I think its perverse as the "free money" distorted those employees from making "normal decisions". For those employees, its a perfectly reasonable (short term) decision to prefer the larger payout. I'd argue its a bad long term decision.
- slg 6y agoThe money isn't "free" if you have to commit fraud to get it. I get that the temporary boost in benefits skewed the incentives a little bit more towards committing unemployment fraud and that might have been enough to sway some people who wouldn't do it under "normal" circumstances, but unemployment fraud is not a new option and this incentive to commit fraud has always existed.
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