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My unemployment ended at 126 weeks. A month later I got an email saying Illinois gets 20 or so more weeks. I'm up to week #135 now and still going. The sea-quest-ter will cut me short...just living it up till it does!
I knew, if I just looked, I would find something positive about the sequester. And here it is.
Just got two really great links from Darexpa1. Great info on both:
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In the states with the most severe cuts in unemployment:
North Carolina ended all federal EUC benefits on July 1st, cutting off EUC payments to an estimated 70,000 North Carolinians in the state with the fifth highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Maine eliminated the last eight weeks of benefits available to EUC recipients, rather than reducing benefits by a set percentage each week.
Florida eliminated the last four weeks of EUC. [FL's Tier 3 is max 7 weeks (not 9)]
The states with the highest percentage reductions for all weekly EUC benefits are Maryland (22.2%), New Jersey (22.2%), Montana (19.6%), Connecticut (19.2%), Arizona (16.8%) and Illinois (16.8%).
Ten states opted to implement benefit reductions for new EUC claims only, or for new Tier 1 and those moving to next-Tier claims only, which produced more severe cuts to somewhat smaller groups of workers (CA 17.7%, CO 18.2%, NH 16.7%, NM 25%, ND 18%, UT 17%, NE 19.4%, OH 16.4%, WA 21.1%, WY 23.1%).
In California about around 120,000 workers had their EUC benefits reduced by 17.7% in May alone, according to state officials. An estimated 429,000 will experience benefit reductions through September 30th, and 531,000 will do so by year-end, should sequestration continue.
States w/fewest UE claimants are WY 1,100; ND 800, SD 300. Wonder how many people are working on their UE offices or, in the case of SD, if it has even one dedicated worker?
I just got the same letter for Emergency Unemployment for my first Federal extension. I just finished my first 26 weeks and have been paying into unemployment for more than 27 years continuously and only used the program once before for 6 months about 12 years ago. I was barely making ends meet on the $450 per week and now it is reduced to $372 a week. Do you think that if I appeal this new notice that I can get them to reinstate my previous benefit amount? Are there any other changes that I might not have heard about? Thanks!
I just got the same letter for Emergency Unemployment for my first Federal extension. I just finished my first 26 weeks and have been paying into unemployment for more than 27 years continuously and only used the program once before for 6 months about 12 years ago. I was barely making ends meet on the $450 per week and now it is reduced to $372 a week. Do you think that if I appeal this new notice that I can get them to reinstate my previous benefit amount? Are there any other changes that I might not have heard about? Thanks!
There is absolutely NO appealable issue on sequestration cuts. These are federal cuts imposed on the distribution of federal monies by Congress. CA is merely following Congressional and USDOL orders.
Sequestration has been in place in all the states, in varying forms, beginning April 6th. CA implements its sequester cuts on a staggered basis, so its cuts are higher. More detailed info, here:
^ Thanks for the information! Much appreciated! <br><br>
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