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Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers (“Millionaires”)

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[Excerpt] To inform the policy debate, this report provides information relevant to proposals that would restrict the payment of unemployment benefits to individuals with high incomes. Three primary areas that may be of interest to lawmakers are addressed: (1) the current U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) opinion on means-testing UI benefits; (2) the potential number of people who would be affected by such proposals; and (3) policy considerations such as the potential savings associated with such proposals, particularly in terms of federal expenditures. The latter two issues are discussed because a small percentage (approximately 0.02%) of tax filers receiving unemployment benefit income had AGI of $1 million or more in tax year 2009 based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data.

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2012-08-02

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unemployment insurance; benefits; income; policy; Congress

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A more recent version of this report can be found here: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/79428

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/79428

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