He says getting paid $550 a week to not work may be keeping some folks from trying to work.

From nj.com:

New Jersey’s jobless benefits are too generous and should be reduced, a Republican leader in the Assembly told business owners today.

Residents collecting $550 per week have little incentive to look for a job, Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce told the Business and Industry Association. He said cutting benefits is one way to prop up the unemployment fund, which is now $1.7 billion in the red to the federal government.

“I’m one of the few people here … who feel that benefits are too good for these people,” said DeCroce of Morris County. “Why go to work? If you can go for 26 weeks collecting $550 a week, and you get an extension for another 26, that’s close to $27,000 a year or $30,000 a year, and a lot of people figure, ‘Why go to work?'”

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