Fox Suggests People Are Quitting Their Jobs To Receive Unemployment Benefits

What’s more, the notion that one could quit work in order to receive unemployment benefits is nonsensical — In order to be eligible for unemployment insurance (UI), the Labor Department makes clear, you must be “unemployed through no fault of your own (determined under State law).” And importantly, as CBO explained, “To maintain eligibility for benefits while unemployed, UI recipients must search for a new job and, in some states, must accept a reasonable job offer.”

Despite the facts, conservative media have a history of denying the realities of unemployment benefits.