Millionaires Collect Unemployment Benefits in RI
Thursday, May 22, 2014
A GoLocalProv investigation finds that a select group of Rhode Island millionaires were able to collect unemployment benefits.
According to data for the most recently available year (2011), nine millionaires collected unemployment benefits. An additional 44 taxpayers earning between $500,000 and $1 million were on unemployment in the same year.
Overall, roughly one out in ten Rhode Islanders who received unemployment benefits earned six figures or more in annual income.
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