Tennessee will be 7th state sued for cutting off federal unemployment benefits
Tennessee | July 22, 2021
A group of Tennesseans are suing Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee for stopping federal unemployment benefits more than two months before the program expires.
Already, people in Indiana and Maryland have sued and won, getting their federal help reinstated And cases are pending right now in Ohio, Oklahoma, Florida, and Texas.
They’re 1,800 strong. The grassroots Facebook group Tennesseans Against Ending Benefits Early say they aren’t stopping without a suit.
Mom and member Dee Bowen of Jonesboro’s been tracking how people in Indiana and Maryland sued to get what they say is rightfully theirs.
“Them winning gives us a little hope that we can win too because we have similar laws,” says Bowen.
Nashville Attorney Gary Blackburn confirms held his first legal consultation with them Wednesday evening and confirms with me he is moving forward with litigation against Governor Bill Lee. Blackburn says, “These are represented to me to be people not people who simply don’t want to go back to jobs because of this. but people who have physical impairments that keep them from doing this.”…
(Excerpts from the Fox 17)