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Senate Passes Unemployment Extension; Obama Could Sign by Thursday
By Steven Hoffer16 HOURS 54 MINUTES AGO
(July 21) -- After one last round of debate, the Senate on Wednesday passed an unemployment extension that restores benefits to jobless workers who'd had their checks cut off in June and keeps them flowing through the end of November for qualifying recipients. The House will give its approval to the measure as early as Thursday and speed it to...
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Unemployment Extension Passes: What's Next for '99ers'?
By Steven Hoffer16 HOURS 57 MINUTES AGO
UPDATED (July 21) -- After a final counter-push from the Republican opposition, the Senate tonight cast a party-line vote to pass a bill that will restore unemployment payments who have been without aid since their benefits expired in June. The measure also provides an unemployment extension to qualifying job seekers that will keep their checks...
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Republican Opposition Delays Final Senate Unemployment Extension Vote
By Steven Hoffer22 HOURS 25 MINUTES AGO
(July 21) -- Though the outcome is all but certain, the fight over the unemployment benefits extension isn't over just yet. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats, with the support of both Republican senators from Maine and freshly sworn-in West Virginia Senator Carte Goodwin, broke a longstanding Republican filibuster against the emergency jobless relief...
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Senate Approves Jobless Benefits for Millions
1 DAY 8 HOURS AGO
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
WASHINGTON (July 21) -- State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits. After months of increasingly bitter stalemate, the Senate passed the measure Wednesday by a 59-39 vote. Obama is poised to sign the...
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July 22 Update: Legislation that will provide an extension of federal extended unemployment benefits through November has been signed by the President. The extension will restore unemployment benefits to the 2.3 million unemployed Americans who have run out of basic unemployment benefits.
ReplyDeleteThe extended benefits will be retroactive, but will not include the $25 extra payment of the COBRA subsidy.
The legislation also does not include a Tier 5 unemployment extension that would provide additional weeks of unemployment for the 99ers - the unemployed workers who have exhausted all unemployment benefits.
For the current status of unemployment in your location, check with your State Unemployment Office web site for details on who qualifies and when and how benefits will be paid.
State Unemployment Benefits Extension Information
For the current status of unemployment in your location, check with your State Unemployment Office web site for details on who qualifies and when and how benefits will be paid.
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