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Originally Posted by 4691mls
It depends on the cost of living. If someone lives in an area with a high cost of living and expensive housing (New York City, San Francisco, etc.) that money might not go very far.
Of course it would be complicated for the government to set up a program to pay different amounts to people living in different cities so that's unlikely to happen.
Hitch, you are a kind and generous person to help out the people in your life this way.
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True, but high-cost states tend to have much higher unemployment benefits. I think I saw that the CA average is over $600. The feds can't hand out different benefits for different states any more than they can for social security. (I suppose they do in a way for Medicare, covering the same 80% at a high-cost NYC provider as a low-cont one in WV)...