Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires
Section 73001 · Sec. 73001 ·
What this chapter is about
This part bars federal jobless pay to people who earned $1 million or more. That is measured over the base period. Applicants must certify their earnings. States must check and claw back any overpayment.
The document says “may not”Who acts: State agencies, Secretary of LaborHow: statuteSec. 73001 in the PDF
What the document says
“to make payments of unemployment compensation benefits under an unemployment compensation program of the United States in a year to an individual whose wages during the individual's base period are equal to or exceed $1,000,000; or”
The section bars federal funds from being used to pay unemployment compensation under a federal program in a year to someone whose wages in their base period were $1,000,000 or more, and from paying any administrative costs tied to such payments. The bar applies to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after enactment.
What the document actually says
“to make payments of unemployment compensation benefits under an unemployment compensation program of the United States in a year to an individual whose wages during the individual's base period are equal to or exceed $1,000,000; or”
That sentence, in plain words
No federal money may pay jobless benefits to such a person. Their pay in the base period must be $1 million or more.
What this is about
The base period is the stretch used to work out a claim. Admin costs for such claims are barred too. The bar starts with weeks from this law on.
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“Any application for unemployment compensation under an unemployment compensation program of the United States shall include a form or procedure for an individual applicant to certify that such individual's wages during the individual's base period do not equal or exceed $1,000,000.”
The section requires every application under such a program to include a form or procedure by which the applicant certifies that their base period wages were under $1,000,000, requires each State agency running such a program to use available systems to check claimant income so far as it can, and requires each such agency to make people repay amounts they were not entitled to.
What the document actually says
“Any application for unemployment compensation under an unemployment compensation program of the United States shall include a form or procedure for an individual applicant to certify that such individual's wages during the individual's base period do not equal or exceed $1,000,000.”
That sentence, in plain words
Every claim form must let the person certify one thing. That is that their base period pay was under $1 million.
What this is about
The state must also check income where it can. It must use the systems it has. It must make people repay what they should not have had.
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“the term ``unemployment compensation program of the United States'' means--”
The section defines the term as unemployment compensation for federal civilian employees under subchapter I of chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code, compensation for ex-servicemembers under subchapter II of that chapter, extended benefits under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, any federal temporary extension of unemployment compensation, any federal program raising the weekly amount payable, and any other federal program paying unemployment compensation as the Secretary of Labor determines.
What the document actually says
“the term ``unemployment compensation program of the United States'' means--”
That sentence, in plain words
The term covers the six programs listed below. Each is a federal one.
What this is about
One covers federal workers. One covers those who left the forces. One covers extra weeks of pay. The rest cover other federal programs.
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Each distinct thing the section does: bar the payments and the admin costs, require self-certification, require State verification, require recovery of overpayments, fix the effective date, and define an unemployment compensation program of the United States.
Nothing in the section is left out. It has two subsections and each is recorded.
The section reaches programs under title 5 of the United States Code and the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, neither of which is indexed here.
