//GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn

GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn

State officials across the U.S. say that Senate Republicans’ proposed slashing of a federally funded boost in unemployment benefits could delay payments for weeks or even months. Democrats are pushing back, arguing that cutting the extra payments to $200 from $600 is bad policy — and that it’s hard to implement. It took some states a month earlier this year to program aging computer systems