New state law on unemployment benefits doesn’t comply with federal law, By Richard Craver, July 16, 2013, Winston-Salem Journal: “State legislators will have to make changes to the recently signed law that cuts state unemployment benefits after the U.S. Labor Department said some parts are not in compliance with federal law. Gay Gilbert, with the federal Office of Unemployment Insurance, said in a July 9 letter that the legislature cannot deny benefits to certain individuals who have lost their jobs. Gilbert identified several conformity concerns about the state law…”
Day: July 16, 2013
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
As Congress debates food stamp cuts, working poor worry, By Martha C. White, July 13, 2013, CNBC: “For one in seven Americans, the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps, is all that stands between them and too little food. But the complicated calculus of financial survival for the working poor also means any cuts to the roughly $80 billion SNAP, as it’s known, being considered by Congress would be felt well beyond the grocery checkout line. Buying new school clothes, family outings, even getting a toehold in the financial mainstream could be thrown into limbo…”