Reaction to Millionaires Receiving Unemployment Benefits
Sunday, May 25, 2014
According to data gathered from the IRS website, 189 millionaires received unemployment benefits in the year 2011, the most recent year that the website reports. The 189 millionaires who were received unemployment benefits claimed $2.4 million.
“Unemployment benefits are colorblind to race, gender, and earnings because it is an assistance program for those who have lost their job,” said Ann Dufresne, the Communications Director for the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development. “Unemployment assistance isn’t meant to replace salaries.”
See what experts had to say about millionaires receiving unemployment benefits below.
49,302 people who had made $100,000 or more in the same year accounted for $532.6 million in unemployment benefits, accounting for 15-percent of all unemployment cases, in the year 2011. Overall, 325,909 unemployment returns were filed in 2011 totaling almost $3 billion in unemployment benefits.
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