400,000 LONG-TERM JOBLESS LOSE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AS EXTENDED BENEFITS END IN EIGHT MORE STATES
Cross-posted from UnemployedWorkers.org
400,000 LONG-TERM JOBLESS LOSE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AS EXTENDED BENEFITS END IN EIGHT MORE STATES
Posted by: Mitchell Hirsch on May 11, 2012
An estimated 236,000 long-term unemployed job-seekers will be abruptly cut-off of federal Extended Benefits (EB) this weekend (Saturday May 12), swelling the ranks of those losing the last 13-to-20 weeks of unemployment insurance to more than 400,000. On Saturday, May 12, eight states fall off the EB program, cutting off the largest number of jobless workers to be hit so far.
California, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado and Connecticut will no longer pay Extended Benefits under an arcane eligibility formula that Congress failed to fix when it reauthorized federal unemployment insurance earlier this year. An estimated 95,300 recipients will be cut off in California alone.
Nineteen other states saw their EB programs end in the first four months of 2012. The table below lists the states losing EB so far this year and estimated numbers of long-term unemployed job-seekers losing benefits.
Click on the image of the table below for a full size pdf version.
Source: National Employment Law Project
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