Not from the states myself, though I hear from friends whom recently told me that because of the government stimulus package for some months, word has it the people who stayed at home because they were laid off/furloughed were actually making significantly more money the entire time than people who were actually working through a pandemic.

So is this actually real thing or overblown? I just find it very, very hard to even conceive of or believe if this is true. I never saw it reported on any news media (TV, Internet, even regardless of political affiliations or anything of the sorts).

What's the deal with this, and how real and on how much of a scale is this happening there? If so was there a reason there was nothing done about it and this didn't receive much more coverage at all?