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While 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 perf
by abfan1127 6y ago
While 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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