$4k a month stimulus ? You guys are delusional. The majority of people fall in 2 categories
- Either you were lay-off or furloughed, so you qualify for state plus federal unemployment assistance. So if you’re under the qualifying income limits, you’re better off now than before.
- You’re an essential worked and have not been effected.
the only people who’ve truly been impacted are high income earners who lost their job this year and don’t qualify for government help and undocumented workers who also don’t qualify and students who also didn’t qualify because they were claimed as dependents.
I see you're still pushing your low information, poorly thought out nonsense that on a subjective level, reeks of the classic stench of anti-poor, anti-working class,
conservative bull **** paired with a certain level of general self-importance and disdain for others.
$75,000
adjusted gross income was the cut off for receiving the
full one-time stimulus payment.
In California the maximum weekly unemployment benefit is $450 per month - which you have to qualify for based on previous employment income. You don't get anywhere near the max if you lost your job that paid minimum wage.
Add to that figure the weekly $600 federal unemployment benefit and the maximum anyone in California could have received during the pandemic is $4,200 per month.
Let's annualize that figure to $50K + the $1.2K stimulus, completely discounting the fact that the unemployment income isn't free money. It's literally wages that you already earned through your own employment. It's not a handout. On top of that you will pay taxes on it this year.
There are many states with far worse unemployment "benefits" than California. Stop being intellectually dishonest and claiming that everyone who qualified for the stimulus is better off financially than they were before.
You not special my guy, I didn't qualify for the one-time economic impact payment either, but you don't see me or anyone else whining about which workers get what, trying to play financial controller for tens of millions of others.