State Unemployment Funds – Nevada, West Virginia

Nevada jobless trust fund nearly broke, By Cy Ryan, August 3, 2009, Las Vegas Sun: ” The trust fund that pays benefits to more than 123,000 jobless Nevadans will be broke by the end of September or early October. To address the shortfall the state will have to borrow $100 million a month from the federal government, state officials told lawmakers Monday…”
Residents running out of jobless benefits, By Michelle Saxton, August 3, 2009, Charleston Daily Mail: “Hundreds of West Virginians have run out of unemployment compensation benefits and will have to wait until next year to get more help unless the state changes the method it uses to trigger extended benefits. And if West Virginia waits too long, it could miss out on an opportunity to get those extended benefits paid fully by the federal government, unemployment and policy experts say…”