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how do i know if i qualify for the unemployment extension passed on sept. 22 2009
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House Bill Extends Jobless Benefits for Some
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jobless workers in imminent danger of losing their unemployment benefits would get a 13-week reprieve under legislation approved by the House on Tuesday.
The House bill applies to 27 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, all of which have unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher. It would not, however, provide extra benefits in states with lower levels of joblessness, including Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah.
The bill passed easily, 331 to 83, although the two parties cast the measure in different lights.
Democrats said the relief was still needed despite signs that their policies were reviving the economy. Republicans said the high jobless rate proved that the Obama administration’s economic strategies were not working.
Similar legislation is pending in the Senate.
The bill, if enacted, would offer a reprieve to more than 300,000 jobless workers who otherwise would run out of unemployment compensation at the end of September, as well as to the more than one million people expected to exhaust their benefits by the end of the year.
“Across America, there are people who are hanging on by a thin economic lifeline called unemployment insurance,” said the bill’s sponsor, Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington.
Mr. McDermott said the bill was necessary to preserve “the positive signs we are beginning to see in the economy.”
Representative Geoff Davis, Republican of Kentucky, which would qualify for more benefits under the bill, said the further extension of benefits was “yet another sign of the failure of this administration’s stimulus plan to create jobs.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jobless workers in imminent danger of losing their unemployment benefits would get a 13-week reprieve under legislation approved by the House on Tuesday.
The House bill applies to 27 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, all of which have unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher. It would not, however, provide extra benefits in states with lower levels of joblessness, including Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah.
The bill passed easily, 331 to 83, although the two parties cast the measure in different lights.
Democrats said the relief was still needed despite signs that their policies were reviving the economy. Republicans said the high jobless rate proved that the Obama administration’s economic strategies were not working.
Similar legislation is pending in the Senate.
The bill, if enacted, would offer a reprieve to more than 300,000 jobless workers who otherwise would run out of unemployment compensation at the end of September, as well as to the more than one million people expected to exhaust their benefits by the end of the year.
“Across America, there are people who are hanging on by a thin economic lifeline called unemployment insurance,” said the bill’s sponsor, Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington.
Mr. McDermott said the bill was necessary to preserve “the positive signs we are beginning to see in the economy.”
Representative Geoff Davis, Republican of Kentucky, which would qualify for more benefits under the bill, said the further extension of benefits was “yet another sign of the failure of this administration’s stimulus plan to create jobs.”
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