Apparently as long as they are eligible for unemployment - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/advantages-and-challenges-supplemental-unemployment-benefit-plan

Apparently as long as they are eligible for unemployment - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/advantages-and-challenges-supplemental-unemployment-benefit-plans https://www.natlawreview.com/article/advantages-and-challeng... Ford pays sub pay, and that combined with unemployment benefits is 74%, Ford doesn't pay the entire 74%. It is not unusual in factories like that to have weeks long temporary layoffs, do to reduced demand or shutting down to retool, so it makes sense for automakers to offer these types of benefits, rather than severence, which is more of a permanent seperation type of thing.