Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    I got “unemployed” during Covid and saw everyone bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job…

    My state let me know they had run out of unemployment insurance several decades ago and I would get just the federal money, reduced down to the state amount, minus the state and federal tax from each check.

    Yeah I got so fucked over it’s still a shock that people say they legitimately came out better with more money.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You should have seen my fucking face when I was on unemployment and I found out that I had to pay income tax on my unemployment checks. Like… what the fuck? Why didn’t you just give me less money to begin with?!