Four Republican-run states have withdrawn from $300 a week in additional unemployment benefits

The federal government provided $300 a week in additional unemployment benefits for unemployed workers during the epidemic, and now four Republican states have announced they are withdrawing, citing unemployment benefits as the reason for the loss of employment incentives for American workers to return to work.

Mississippi Governor Reeves (Tate Reeves) issued a statement on the 10th pointed out: “The situation has become very clear, unless thousands of vacancies in our state can be filled, there will be no full economic recovery.” Arkansas, South Carolina and Montana have all announced they are withdrawing from the federal program that provides an additional $300 a week in unemployment benefits starting next month.

For his part, Indiana’s Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, said he has asked the state department to submit a statistical analysis of the state’s unemployed population over the past 16 months and will then decide whether to continue participating in the federal government’s additional unemployment benefit program.

Starting in June, Mississippi residents will not be able to continue to receive the $300 a week in additional unemployment benefits provided by the federal government. In a statement, Reeves said, “Unemployment benefits are intended to be short-term assistance, available to Mississippians who are unemployed through no fault of their own.” Reeves has instructed state authorities that the next step for people receiving unemployment benefits must be to strengthen the eligibility requirements.

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced last week that he will launch a “return-to-work” incentive program, funded by the American The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Unemployed people back to work, and continue to work for at least a month, you can receive $ 1200 bonus.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson sent a letter to the State Department of Commerce on July 7, stating that the additional federal unemployment benefits program is now “done.

In the letter, Hutchinson wrote that allowing the federal additional unemployment benefits program to continue until its original deadline of Sept. 4, 2021, was “unnecessary and would actually interfere with employers filling 40,000 jobs in Arkansas.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) announced last week that additional federal unemployment benefits will end next month. He said the program is “a very dangerous federal welfare benefit.