For Unemployment Extension, All That’s Left Is Obama’s Signature
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 2:38 pm
My colleague notes that the House just passed the Senate extension of federal unemployment benefits, as the Senate did last night. The bill now moves on to President Obama, who will likely sign the benefits into law today or tomorrow morning.
The package does not create new benefits, or re-up the $25-a-week Federal Additional Compensation, added to many employment insurance checks. Rather, the $34 billion bill restores benefits that sunsetted on June 2, and extends them through Nov. 30. Jobless workers can expect their checks in the next two to four weeks — depending on the state. The federal benefits come into effect after a worker has exhausted his state benefits, after 26 weeks, and provide up to 99 weeks of additional unemployment insurance — depending on the unemployment rate in the worker’s state.
The passage ends a two-month stalemate, with Senate and House Democrats attempting to push through a number of bills to restore benefits to 2.6 million Americans, as 300,000 a week lost their checks. Republicans did not object to extending benefits, but objected to adding to the deficit to supply them; Democrats pushed for emergency spending, not subject to normal paygo rules, hoping to add to the overall stimulus as the recovery sags.
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Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 6:55 pm
I got my last check June 9th, and my child support comes from my ex's UI benefits, and that ended June 15th. I hope it doesn't take 4 weeks, but THANK GOD!!!!
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
I was on unemployment and lost my benefits two weeks ago. Does anyone know what I need to do to apply for the federal benefits. Please help!
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
In Ohio we just kept on applying for weekly benefits as they said we would then be paid if (when) the fed's extended benefits.
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
I'm sure that in all states (except Florida) you are automatically switched into the federal unemployment benefits. You don't have to do anything except continue to file your weekly or biweekly (TX) claim online as usual. If anything more needs to be done, the state will tell you or mail you additional paperwork for you to fill out.
Whatever you do, DON'T STOP FILING FOR EVEN ONE WEEK! If you do, you'll be dropped from unemployment.
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 8:14 pm
Just apply for an extention and they will tell you!!
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 8:37 pm
whatever you do keep callin marvin on your designated date to do so.
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 8:46 pm
Can anyone direct me to the results of this vote? I can't find the data for Democrats who voted against it.
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Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 9:14 pm
Oh…Boo! Hoo! I lost my benefits over 5 weeks ago. 2 weeks is nothing; use your credit cards until the extension payments start showing up.
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 10:26 pm
Depending on ur state, a phone call or perhaps a page filled out and faxed to the unemp office should do it!… I claim from WV and have ben without since May 29th! and now they say just another 2-4 weeks! Thats a month. Hope its sooner than letter
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Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
Robin, contact your state and ask them for the paper work for a Federal funded unemployment extention. They will be glad to help you out and you may be able to ask for the paper work on line, depending on which state you live in. I would recommend waiting till the President signs the extention into law first before doing anything. Good Luck
Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 11:50 pm
I've used up 46 weeks of unemployment benefits and exhausted all my claims by June 12th. Let me get this straight, because my benefits ended 10 days after June 2nd (apparently the cut off date) I do not qualify? So the poeple that have been without jobs the longest, the 99ers and the people that have been without jobs the shortest amount of time do not qualify… How does this make any sense?
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Comment posted July 23, 2010 @ 1:15 am
For someone who has “been there”you certainly have no compassion for others…Everyone doesn't have the luxury of using credit cards…Hello,we are just coming out of a recession….Try a little empathy my friend…
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Obama chides Republicans for thwarting jobless extension
July 17, 2010 | 7:22 a.m.
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama stepped up criticism of Republicans Saturday for blocking jobless aid, hammering home a Democratic election year attack line that casts the opposition as the party of the rich.
“Too often, the Republican leadership in the United States Senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress. And that has very real consequences,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
Senate Republicans have used the filibuster, a procedural hurdle demanding 60 votes in the 100-member chamber, to block at least three Democratic initiatives to extend unemployment insurance. Republicans cite the need to curb government spending amid a record budget deficit.
“Think about what these stalling tactics mean for the millions of Americans who've lost their jobs since the recession began. Over the past several weeks, more than two million of them have seen their unemployment insurance expire,” the president said.
Obama has made job creation his top domestic priority and has traveled repeatedly to the U.S. heartland to tout policies that lift hiring, including a trip to Holland, Michigan, on Thursday for the groundbreaking of an electric car battery factory that has received federal dollars.
U.S. growth has resumed after the worst recession in decades, thanks in part to a $862 billion stimulus plan Obama signed last year.
But this recovery has been slow to produce new jobs, and his Democrats risk punishment by voters in congressional elections Nov. 2 unless there is a drop in unemployment, now running at 9.5 percent.
Time is running out. A recent poll showed confidence in Obama's economic stewardship has flagged, and Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs, as well as 36 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate.
Frustratingly for the White House, its proposals to extend unemployment insurance, cut capital gains taxes on investments and set up a fund to boost lending to small businesses have been repeatedly blocked on Capitol Hill.
Republicans rejected the claim they were using congressional rules to thwart the process and said there had been no votes of any sort on small business lending.
“Nobody has 'used procedural tactics to block a simple, up-or-down vote.' It's just not accurate,” said Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, referring to another of the president's remarks.
BUDGET DEFICIT
Senate Republicans say the country cannot afford more taxpayer-funded government spending, on top of Obama's emergency stimulus package, an argument that taps into public disquiet over a record budget deficit and rising debt.
But the White House, which says the the deficit should be tackled in the medium term once the labor market has properly healed, calls this politically motivated obstruction and says Republicans are siding with the rich.
“They say we shouldn't provide unemployment insurance because it costs money,” chided Obama.
“So after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, including a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, they've finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed,” he said.
The White House is particularly scornful of Republican criticism of the deficit, which is forecast to hit a record $1.56 trillion in the current fiscal year.
Obama's Republican predecessor George W. Bush inherited a surplus from Democratic President Bill Clinton, but handed Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit eight years later, which his White House blames on Bush-era tax cuts and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that were funded with deficits.
“They've got no problem spending money on tax breaks for folks at the top who don't need them and didn't even ask for them; but they object to helping folks laid off in this recession who really do need help,” Obama said.
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Comment posted July 23, 2010 @ 3:51 am
Wow all that talk and fuss and still no help for the 99ers, we have grown to over 4 million now and I guess our votes don't count anymore. Senator Stabenow claims to be working on something for the 99ers, so where is it and how long will it take ??? A lot of us have done without for months, some of us January, has anyone heard anything or is it the taboo word still to say 99ers ???
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Comment posted July 23, 2010 @ 2:21 pm
IT HAS BEEN SINCE APRIL FOR US …WE LIVE IN GEORGIA . HUSBAND HAS WORKED ALL HIS LIFE AND IS SO DEPRESSED THAT HE CAN'T FIND WORK, WE HAVE HAD TO MOVE IN WITH KIDS. ALL HE IS TOLD IS CONTINUE TO CERTIFY EACH WEEK . DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY NEWS OF THE LONGGGG TERM BEING HELPED AGAIN? I AGREE EVERYONE NEEDS THE HELP BUT WHY WAS WE ALL OVERLOOKED IN THIS NEW BILL OR EXTENSION?
Comment posted July 23, 2010 @ 5:27 pm
So if you have already been on unemployment benefits for 99 weeks there isn't anything in this new bill for us? My checks stopped coming three weeks ago. I keep seeing people say to keep calling or do weekly certifications even if we aren't getting checks but when I call it says my unemployment has run out… it doesn't allow me to certify. I saw the news about Obama extending the benefits and thought that included everyone until I read the comments on here :(
Comment posted July 23, 2010 @ 5:33 pm
I feel your pain I hit my 99 weeks in March, I have only heard one thing from the horses mouth so to speak. On the Ed Show on MSNBC he did ask what they are going to do about the 99ers. Senator Stabenaw and one other Senator did say they were working on something for the 99ers. The bad news is no one seems to know when. I do know there have been letters sent to Obama and Harry Reid to give us help. We have not heard anything yet. The only thing I can say is call Stabenaw's office (202)224-4822 and ask her or whom ever answer's the phone when we will get help. Also I would keep an eye on the Ed Show and send him e-mails too. I hope this has been kind of helpful
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Comment posted September 15, 2010 @ 1:09 am
there is really some pissed of people in this country in the millions what cha gonna do when we the people come down on you congress
Comment posted December 6, 2010 @ 9:42 pm
where is help for the 99ers. the rep. want a tax cut the dems say no. the dem want an extension for the unemployed. the rep. say not unless you extended taxes for the rich. they come together again rep. get more of what the want. dem doesn’t added anything to the pot. they come together again rep. get even more of what they want. dems still don’t add anything to the pot.DAM FOOLS. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO PLAY POOKER. ADD A TEIR 5!!! Michael T
Comment posted December 17, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
I have looked for work for 97wks and continue to this day, and I won’t give in. I will have my 98th week here this week, it has provided me to stay in my home that I bought almost 20 years ago and I call it home….my safe haven, my security, the place where I love to be and here soon I won’t be able to make my payment, I am so depressed that here If I don’t continue to get help or get work I will know what it will be like to hold a sign on the street corner that says ” HOMELESS PLEASE HELP” this is so scary! What do we do now, is there no continued help for us?
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