Unemployment Benefits – North Carolina

N.C. unemployment fight being watched across the U.S., By Jordan Friedman, July 21, 2013, USA Today: “Scott Bland of Waxhaw, N.C., is out of work — and the hardships that he and 70,000 other people face have grabbed national headlines. Sparks are flying over a recent change in North Carolina’s unemployment benefits – the elimination of federally-funded compensation – bringing protests to the state capitol and leaving citizens and some legislators up in arms. Unemployment snafus in states across the country aren’t new or unusual. But North Carolina is unique because it’s the only state to cut off access to the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), a program that gives unemployed citizens money after they use up their state benefits…”