Free money for 155 weeks for those who don’t feel like working and finance it by stealing money from working people when they die?
All this for a 2 year temporary extension of existing tax rates.
What a deal!
Used car salesmen offer better deals. The GOP is clueless.
All this for a 2 year temporary extension of existing tax rates.
What a deal!
If what I'm hearing is true, unemployment benefits will still run out after 99 weeks. What is being extenmded is the program that allows for unemployment to cover people from 26 weeks (standard unemployment) to 99 weeks.
Damn! That sums it up perfectly!
All this for a 2 year temporary extension of existing tax rates.
What a deal!
Please stop throwing around this 155 weeks meme. No one gets unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks, and to have already gotten that much you would have to been in one of the states with the highest unemployment rate and lost your job all the way back in 2008. In which case your unemployment benefits have ALREADY expired.
Geesh!
The 13-month extension will continue to provide those federal benefits up to but not exceeding 99 weeks to those in states with the highest level of unemployment who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state unemployment insurance.
States offer different tiers of federal jobless benefits based on their individual unemployment levels.
--http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/132399-democrats-pleased-with-jobless-benefits-extension-but-mulling-over-tax-cut-package