GOP, White House aim to temporarily reduce weekly unemployment benefit from $600 to $200

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/27/senate-stimulus-coronavirus/

By Erica Werner,
Jeff Stein and
Seung Min Kim
July 27, 2020 at 2:47 p.m. EDT

Senate Republicans will propose cutting weekly emergency unemployment benefits from $600 to $200 until states can bring a more complicated program online, according to two people familiar with the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity about details that had not yet been released.

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