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Summary of Bill & What It Means to You
SB 2 (Sen. Wojno): Increase Unemployment Benefit Duration. This legislation would increase the number of weeks an unemployed worker is eligible for state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits from 20 to 26.
OPPOSE: Increase Unemployment Benefit Duration. Michigan’s Unemployment Trust Fund, the 100 percent employer financed fund that pays benefits to unemployed workers, is nearly bankrupt due to COVID-19 benefits. Michigan cannot afford a benefit increase of this size or type without a massive tax increase on employers. Rather than finding ways to keep more workers on unemployment benefits, Michigan should focus fully reopening all sectors of Michigan’s’ economy and finding ways to get people back to work.
Retroactive Workers’ Compensation Coverage Mandate for COVID Claims. This legislation seeks to require workers’ compensation to cover all COVID-19 related medical claims for “essential workers” retroactive to March 10, 2020. This mandate would apply regardless of whether the worker could prove he or she contracted COVID-19 in the workplace.
SB 2 (Sen. Wojno): Increase Unemployment Benefit Duration. This legislation would increase the number of weeks an unemployed worker is eligible for state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits from 20 to 26.