Tag: unemployment insurance

Unemployment insurance bill to extend the coverage in the works

H. Cutner
Unemployment Insurance

This is developing into an effort that has bipartisan support as a Republican senator has jumped on the bandwagon. According to the Rhode Island Democrat Senator Jack Reed, he will be introducing a bill that would extend the long term federal unemployment insurance program by three months, and this proposal has a Republican co-sponsor. The hope is that there will be a procedural vote on this topic as early as January 6. Senator Reed discussed the importance of the unemployment insurance bill, stating that “This is not a program that…

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Federal unemployment insurance benefits collapse

Nordstrom
Unemployment Insurance

Legislative inaction could leave people without benefits Some 1.3 million people will lose their insurance benefits at the end of the month due to legislative inaction from the U.S. Congress. Federal lawmakers have declined to renew emergency funding that had been implemented for the federal unemployment insurance program. The benefits provided by this program have provided consumers throughout the country with some degree of financial stability as they look for employment. Unemployment insurance was augmented by emergency funds due to ongoing economic issues throughout the U.S. that made it nearly…

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Unemployment insurance extension sought by Obama from Congress

Julie Campbell
Unemployment Insurance extension

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…

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Unemployment insurance program in Texas swamped with problems

G. Turner
Unemployment Insurance North Carolina

Issues with delayed benefits and overpayments are causing epidemic struggles. The unemployment insurance program in Tennessee is facing tremendous problems as the $1.2 billion system, which is administered by the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The program is bleeding money through a high trend of overpayments, errors, and fraud. The unemployment insurance program has made $73 million in overpayments as a result of errors and fraud over a period of six years. Auditors in Tennessee have determined that the department’s program internal controls were either not effective or…

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Unemployment insurance plans in North Carolina spark controversy

S.Vagus
Unemployment Insurance North Carolina

Lawmakers push changes for unemployment insurance North Carolina legislators have been working on a plan to reduce the benefits people receive through unemployment insurance. A bill has been introduced that aims to reduce the maximum weekly benefits that unemployed people can receive from the state’s unemployment insurance program from $530 to $350. The legislation would also cut down on the maximum duration that a person can receive such benefits from the current 20 weeks to just 12 weeks. The legislation has received criticism from consumer advocacy groups and has now…

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