To ensure that additional unemployment benefits do not result in an individual receiving unemployment compensation that is more than the amount of wages the individual was earning prior to becoming unemployed.

SA 1577. Mr. SASSE (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Scott of South
Carolina, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Blackburn,
and Mr. Lee) proposed an amendment to amendment SA 1578 proposed by Mr.
McConnell to the bill H.R. 748, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 to repeal the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health
coverage; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title II of division A, insert
the following:

SEC. 2117. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS MAY NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF
WAGES THE INDIVIDUAL WAS EARNING PRIOR TO
BECOMING UNEMPLOYED.

(a) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.--Notwithstanding
section 2101, in no case may the total amount of the weekly
assistance applicable to an individual under paragraph (1) or
(2) of section 2102 (including the increase under section
2104) exceed the amount of the individual's average weekly
wages for an appropriate period prior to the receipt of
assistance under such section, as determined by the Secretary
of Labor.
(b) Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.--
Notwithstanding section 2104, in no case may the sum of the
weekly amount described in subparagraphs (A) (regular
compensation) and (B) (Federal pandemic unemployment
compensation) of section 2104(b)(1) for an individual exceed
the amount of the individual's average weekly wages for which
the amount described in such subparagraph (A) is based.
(c) Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation.--
Notwithstanding section 2107, in no case may an individual's
average weekly benefit amount described in 2107(b)(3)
(including the increase under section 2104) exceed the amount
of the average weekly wages for which the individuals's
average weekly benefit amount (determined without regard to
such increase) is based.
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