Federal Unemployment Extensions Ending
The Federal unemployment extensions that a lot of unemployed workers have been accustomed to over the last three years have two very important dates coming up.
November 30th 2010 will set the end of the ability to get a Federal unemployment extension. If your unemployment ends before this deadline and you have received less than 99 weeks of unemployment compensation, you should be able to get an extension the amount of weeks available will depend on your unemployment tier.
Everyone on an extension EUC or EB will no longer get payments after January 1st. It is possible (but unlikely that Congress can vote on unemployment benefits to continue but without a vote on the matter all payments on extensions will end January 1st.
The impending cut to unemployment in November and end of December has at least the State of Indianapolis literally on guard. They are placing armed guards at their 36 unemployment offices.
For those of you keeping track the total cost of unemployment benefits has cost the Government $319 billion and counting.