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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by acdha on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:23PM (#22980612)
Citation needed for that “a lot”, especially given how many news stories there are about significant delays before getting payments (see e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unemployment-benefits-6-2-milli...) and the need to pay significantly more (COBRA) or go without health insurance until qualifying for and getting on Medicaid.

There are definitely some people in low wage states getting more but that is far from universal even though it’s a standard right-wing talking point.

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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by tempsy on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:27PM (#22980663)
Extra $2400/mo plus some percent of your salary means almost everyone making $50k or less is made whole or making more. That’s a significant percentage of those service workers who were most vulnerable to being laid off.

If you are furloughed you keep all your benefits and still qualify for unemployment

Some companies are paying for healthcare for a period of time post layoffs

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