GPS Tracking Unemployment Receipiants
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Collecting Unemployment Benefits?
Here Is Your GPS Tracker
The current recession climate has resulted in prolonged lengths of high unemployment. With a democratic Senate and President always putting general welfare as a top priority, over the past two years the lawmakers in Washington have created Federal unemployment extensions due to the unique circumstances of the most severe recession since the Great Depression. Looking to cap fraud and ensure people are not taking advantage of the unemployment extensions, some bloggers and lobbyists are suggesting that GPS trackers be placed on the automobiles of people collecting unemployment checks.
GPS Tracking Devices
The current system in place requires people collecting unemployment to go through a certification process every two weeks for benefits where the claimant will answer questions regarding their work search. The person claiming unemployment benefits is also mandated to keep a work search history to validate that they are indeed looking for work while collecting unemployment. However, auditing the unemployment beneficiaries is a very difficult task for state departments of unemployment who are understaffed and stormed with seemingly a never-ending amount of new claims. However, making sure that people collecting unemployment benefits are indeed continuing to search for employment opportunities could be a whole lot easier through the use of GPS vehicle tracker technology.
GPS trackers would document every stop a person on unemployment made, addresses arrived and how long they were on the road. State employment offices would use the GPS tracking data for auditing purposes, making certain that those collecting benefits are not sitting on the couch watching Oprah and drinking beer. (Beer drinking and Oprah have been linked to a decrease in productivity by independent research groups).
"We are becoming more dependent on the government simply giving us a hand-out, and this over-extension of social services is turning this country into a welfare nation", explained a Republican who stated he would be in favor of any measures that resulted in greater accountability for those collecting unemployment, welfare, food stamps or any other government/state funded service. "The government cannot continue simply printing money and handing it out to people without thinking that there will never be any consequences. The government spending has gotten out of control, and steps need to be made to reduce spending, not increase it. That is the only way the country will get, and stay out, of the current economic mess."
Reader Opinion
Do you believe that those who are collecting unemployment benefits or other social services should be required to have GPS trackers placed on their vehicles?
Should the government put more emphasis on reduction of spending?