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House Approves Extension of COBRA Subsidy and Unemployment Benefits
13 hours ago ago from Wyatt Employment Law Report
By Edwin S. Hopson On December 16, 2009, the House of Representatives passed a 6 month extension of the COBRA subsidy for unemployed persons and a 2 month extension of the eligibility period. The COBRA subsidy, which is set to expire December 31, 2009, requires employers to pay 65% of the cost of COBRA for eligible unemployed workers, but also allows the employers to take an offset of that cost against payroll taxes due the federal ...
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12 hours ago ago from WOLDCNews - WOL DC's Home for the Truth
From the Washington Post: The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks. The shortfalls are putting pressure on governments to either raise taxes or shrink the aid payments. Debates over the state benefit programs have erupted in South ...
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17 hours ago ago from File Unemployment - The Complete Guide
Home News Unemployment Guide Jobs Available Subscribe File Unemployment Your Unemployment Guide Unemployment Benefits by Ray on January 10, 2009 This article lists all the benefits that can be claimed by workers who have lost jobs. © FEMP9 Common perception is that unemployment benefits are temporary cost of living adjustments. Financial assistance is just one part of unemployment ...
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17 hours ago ago from File Unemployment - The Complete Guide
Home News Unemployment Guide Jobs Available Subscribe File Unemployment Your Unemployment Guide File for Unemployment The Ultimate Guide by Ray on January 12, 2009 You have lost that precious job that provided all the financial support. Now what? Obviously this is not the time to panic or being depressed. Take a step back, and relax there is always another job waiting to be hunted for. You ...
Related contentTexas unemployment benefits extension update.
1 day ago ago from Prairie Fire Journal
For those of you in Texas who are wondering about your unemployment benefits going into 2010, here's what I understand the situation to be: If you are currently eligible for unemployment benefits and your current benefits are exhausted by December 26, 2009, then you will be eligible to collect the next tier of emergency unemployment benefits that you qualify for. Benefits may be paid through May 29, 2010. However, until Congress ...
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1 hour, 36 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
I recently sat in on the daily meeting of a palliative care team at a hospital doctors, nurses, a social worker, a chaplain and others, all working with seriously ill patients in extreme pain. One of the patients was a middle-aged man whose advanced cancer had destroyed a major bone in his leg. His wife had already done heroic work caring for him, and more was going to be needed in the months ahead. Karin Cooper/CBS Face the ...
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When politicians want to kill any measure, the surefire trump card-used liberally by both parties over the years-is to declare, "This bill cuts Medicare benefits!" The Republicans tried it against the Senate's healthcare reform earlier this month-but for once, it didn't work. (A last minute endorsement by AARP , the 800-pound senior lobby, helped the Democrats stand their ground.) Now the Senate bill is all but certain to be approved, but the ...
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3 hours ago ago from The New York Times
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Companies are alarmed at potentially costly provisions in the Senate health-care bill, many of which they hope will be scrapped during a final round of negotiations early next year. A scramble to massage the hefty measure, instead of pushing to kill it, reflects the view of many in the business community that a sweeping remake of the U.S. health-care system now appears inevitable. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is among a few big business ...
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16 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
The recession has sent 25 state unemployment funds into bankruptcy, and the Department of Labor predicts the number will reach 40 in the next two years, the Washington Post reports . States whose jobless funds have already dried up have borrowed $24 billion from the federal government to cover the gaps, and a total of $90 billion will be needed to keep the funds operating by 2011. Unemployment programs are funded by a payroll tax on ...
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