Extension of Jobless Benefits

Posted on April 12, 2010 by townsend

• Congress’ delay on benefits leaves unemployed scrambling, By David Lightman, Halimah Abdullah and Grace Gagliano, April 11, 2010, Chattanooga Times Free Press: “An estimated 212,500 people across the United States are in danger of exhausting their federal unemployment benefits this week because a Republican senator has blocked Congress from considering an extension. It’s the second time in as many months that a Republican has led an effort to bar the Senate from considering an extension of jobless benefits. While the money is expected eventually to be paid retroactively, the delay creates a host of problems for people who are out of work and the agencies that assist them…”
• Unemployment to run out for many Floridians if Congress doesn’t pass extension, By Kevin Turner, April 12, 2010, Florida Times-Union: “If Congress doesn’t reauthorize legislation providing extended unemployment benefits soon, Derek Kinner’s next unemployment check will be his last one at least for awhile, potentially forcing him from his Palm Coast townhouse into homelessness. ‘I’ve got two more weeks. I’ll file for it on Tuesday. If that doesn’t come through, I’m totally broke,’ said Kinner, 51, a former Florida Times-Union reporter and editor, who left the company in 2005. The 27-year print journalist is looking for another newspaper job, he said. Kinner was laid off from a reporting job at the Daytona Beach News-Journal about two years ago and has struggled to find work since, he said…”