Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: "Depending on which study you look at," he said, "either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job."

Q1: What proportion of unemployed Americans receive benefits that exceed their lost earnings?
A1: 68%

Q2: What are unemployed individuals earning that means they are earning more out of work than they would be in work?
A2: The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act substantially expanded Unemploy-
ment Insurance (UI) in order to help workers losing jobs as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. One provision
of the Act creates an additional $600 weekly benefit known as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Com-
pensation (FPUC). The size of the payment—$600—was designed to replace 100 percent of the mean U.S.
wage when combined with mean state UI benefits.

Q3: What is the ratio between the unemployment benefits to mean pre-tax wages?
A3: As designed, the ratio of mean unemployment benefits to mean pre-tax wages under CARES is roughly
100%. However, this masks substantial heterogeneity. We find that 76% of unemployed workers have a
statutory replacement rate above 100%.

Q4: Does this mean that some unemployed are earning more than they would be whilst in work?
A4: Yes, because That means that three in four unemployed workers are eligible for
benefits which exceed their lost wages. The median statutory replacement rate is 145%. 69% of unemployed
workers have comprehensive replacement rates above 100% and so qualify for unemployment benefits which
exceed total post-payroll tax wages and non-wage compensation. The median comprehensive replacement
rate is 134%

Q5: Why are some unemployed people now earning more than when they were in work?
A5: These conclusions arise because the CARES Act sends a fixed $600 supplement to unemployed workers
who have very different pre-job loss earnings: $600 is a larger percentage of pre-job loss earnings for low
than for high earners. The CARES Act implemented a fixed supplement to all workers in part because it
was viewed as infeasible to implement policies which depended on individual earnings. Since the $600 UI
supplement was targeted to generate 100% earnings replacement based on mean earnings, this $600 sup-
plement tends to imply greater than 100% earnings replacement for those with less than mean earnings.
Furthermore, these high replacement rates for below-mean workers are amplified by the fact that the dis-
tribution of earnings is skewed: median earnings are less than mean earnings. This means that the typical
unemployed worker has below-mean prior earnings and thus above-mean replacement rates. This implies
that most workers have replacement rates above 100%.
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justification: This is claim supported. According to the QA pairs, the CARES Act sent a fixed $600 supplement to all unemployed workers. 68% of unemployed Americans receive benefits that exceed their lost earnings. Therefore, this claim is supported.

verdict: 'Supported'
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