Unemployment insurance proposal achieves bipartisan Senate support

March 19, 2014March 19, 2014 G. Turner

A new deal has been reached in order to lengthen the long term coverage by another five months. A bipartisan senator group has now come to a deal that will allow the federal long term unemployment insurance program to be extended for an additional five months. This agreement has arrived after several months of focused negotiations and will be applied retroactively. The unemployment insurance will be distributed retroactively to those whose benefits expired at the close of last year. The price tag that comes with extending these benefits will be…

Unemployment insurance extension sought by Obama from Congress

December 16, 2013December 14, 2013 Julie Campbell

The president also said that he likes the deal in the proposed congressional budget. United States President Barack Obama has said that while he does like the congressional budget deal that has been proposed, he is also hoping that Congress will allow an extension to unemployment insurance, which is rapidly closing in on its expiry date. The president made a number of statements of this sort when he met with a group of newly elected mayors. He spoke with the mayors from cities across the country on the subject of…