Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-2448
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lankford, James [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2013-06-20
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2013-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-06-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2013 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to make payments of unemployment compensation (including such compensation under the Federal-State Extended Compensation Act of 1970 and the emergency unemployment compensation program under the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008) to an individual whose resources in the preceding year were at least $1 million. </p> <p>Requires an individual's resources to be determined in the same manner as a subsidy eligible individual's resources are determined under the alternative resource standard of the Social Security Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2448 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 20, 2013 Mr. Lankford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To end unemployment payments to jobless millionaires.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act of 2013 . 2. Ending unemployment payments to jobless millionaires (a) Prohibition Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be used to make payments of unemployment compensation (including such compensation under the Federal-State Extended Compensation Act of 1970 and the emergency unemployment compensation program under title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008) in a year to an individual whose resources in the preceding year were equal to or greater than $1,000,000. For purposes of the preceding sentence, with respect to a year, an individual's resources shall be determined in the same manner as a subsidy eligible individual’s resources are determined for the year under section 1860D–14(a)(3)(E) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w–114(a)(3)(E)). (b) Effective date The prohibition under subsection (a) shall apply to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.