# Will Unemployed Americans Get $$$?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-unemployed-americans-get/849854 "2020-03-20T00:23:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-unemployed-americans-get/849854/21 "2020-03-30T01:52:57Z")

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I anticipate great confusion and wailing and gnashing of teeth across the land when the payments start arriving and the question becomes how come what my neighbor got is different from what I got.

> [@fedman](#):
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> what bothers me is that the bill lets employers not pay matching contributions to Social Security, so SS is going to take a hit.

There is a provision that the Treasury will hold harmless the SSTF for the deferral of the contributions (they get moved forward to 2021 and 2022).

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