The Labor Department's pandemic-era 'first week' unemployment benefit program has been shut down for two years, but the department is still hoarding nearly $5 billion in cash that never got spent.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.President Donald J. Trump’s name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak in this April 23, 2020 photo taken in San Antonio. Early in the pandemic, …The Labor Department’s pandemic-era “first week” unemployment benefit program has been shut down for two years, but the department is still hoarding nearly $5 billion in cash that never got spent.
Unfortunately, inside the federal government it probably happens with troubling frequency, said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. Officially known as Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week, or TFFF for short, the program was supposed to entice states to waive their one-week waiting period by covering that first week’s full payments.
“They cannot be used for anything else, and to infer that these funds could be used elsewhere is incorrect,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Brent Parton.But he said clawing it back now is premature because states may still come looking for money and the TFFF has to have the funds to cover it.
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