Mnuchin: Employees Who Reject Offer to Go Back to Work Cannot Receive Unemployment Benefits

Mnuchin: Employees Who Reject Offer to Go Back to Work Cannot Receive Unemployment Benefits
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin answers questions during the daily CCP virus task force briefing at the White House in Washington on April 21, 2020. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Jack Phillips
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that individuals who reject an offer from their company to return to their jobs after they are laid off due to the pandemic are no longer considered eligible to receive unemployment benefits from the federal government.

“If you offer a person a job ... and that person does not take the job ... then that person would not be allowed to get unemployment,” Mnuchin said Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
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