Unemployment Benefits Extension Allows the Struggling Unemployed Insurance Through November 2010
Posted on | July 26, 2010 | 2 Comments
The unemployment benefits extension allows many struggling Americans who are unemployed to receive insurance benefits through November 2010. It is very important to remember that this is not an extension of a Tier 5 but an extension to those who can still apply for benefits prior to Tier 5.
At the present time, the unemployed can continue to gain access to unemployment insurance up to 99 weeks. Many wonder what will happen next to the 99ers as they have exhausted their unemployment benefits and there are not many other options to make ends meet when it comes to personal finances.
Even though the economy continues to recover it is the case that many unemployed Americans are struggling to find employment in some of the states that have seen the economy stabilize or drop. The housing market in some states is causing a very high unemployment rate, such as Nevada and Michigan.
Over the next several months there will be great debate on the possible extension of unemployment benefits. Feel free to get in on the conversation on this website or at the following link:
Unemployment Benefits Extension Passed Through November 2010 – Enabling of America by Obama?
It will be very interesting to see what happens in the November elections when the unemployment benefits issue will arise again.
Author: Heather Best
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July 26th, 2010 @ 4:26 pm
I don’t know if you actually read the comments but I would really like something looked into. My husband has been out of work since Jan., 2009. He exausted his tiers 1-3 benefits. He has only received roughly 72 weeks (he lost benefits 2 months ago), not the 99 weeks everyone is talking about. Yet, Utah states he doesn’t qualify for more. Can you tell me why some get 99 weeks and some don’t? Or is Utah jerking people around?
We don’t even live in Utah, he was force to apply there because the trucking company he worked for was based there. We lived in WA at the time, and CA now (we lost everything and had to move in with family).
July 26th, 2010 @ 6:14 pm
To everyone that is on unemployment and is responding to these blogs. I just contacted my unemployment agency and ask what do I do now that the president has signed the extension. They said it won’t go into affect for at least 2 to 4 weeks. So that is more time families go without because the GOP wanted to play politics with our lives. So we can sit in front of our computers and complain. That might make you feel a little better to let off some steam but the Senators that are blocking the extension benefit bill are not reading these blogs. They don’t care. What we can do is take action. Start calling every Senator that blocked this bill for two months. Most of these guys that opposed the bill are millionaires, so you can see why they don’t care. To find your Senators contact info go to Senate.gov. Once you get their DC office number and fax number blast their phones with calls everyday. Some of them are saying unemployment benefits is just an incentive to not look for work and have even said we were lazy. So call and call and call.
To anyone that believes we are sitting on our butts and not looking; let me tell you what is going on. Two major things.
1) When companies were forced to lay off workers their goals didn’t change they were still in business to make a profit and if they had share holders they still had their yearly projection that was promised to the share holders. So what they did is just made the people they kept work harder and longer. Maybe had some people that were in management get back to physical work instead of just supervising. So if they hit their goals with less workers there is no incentive to rehire until their goals are too high their current work staff can’t reach it. So less labor and hitting quarterly goals creates larger profits.
2) I been in management most of my life and wither you are a manager of a small business or a big enough business that you have a Human Resource manager. Hiring can be very stressful. They are looking for a person that will be right for the company and stay and help the company succeed for a long time. So when they are looking at applications and interviewing people they have those criteria’s in mind plus they have a pay scale in mind. So they are not going to hire someone that was making $90,000.00 for a $45,000.00 a year job . Why? It is not just because they might be over qualified; it is will this person stay with us for the long term? or until a better paying job comes up. Yes, during the interview most applicants will say they are looking for anything right now and will be a loyal employee. The interviewer knows that as soon as that person gets called back to their old job or is offered a higher paying job they will leave 99.9% of the time. So part of there job of hiring is to find a person for the job that will stay and keep turn over down. That means be very careful who you hire because every person you hire cost a company around $3,000.00 to $5,000.00 in training. ½ of that amount on the new hire and the other half for the person spending time training the new hire, plus the hours of paperwork done when there is a new hire. So every time you lose that hired person the company takes a loss. By the way high turnover is #1 on the list of losing your job as a manager or HR manager.
This doesn’t stop us from looking but just shows the reasons why we are not getting call backs from resumes or applications. It is just the facts, a SUBWAY owner isn’t going to hire a person that was making $50,000.00 a year and train them when they can hire a person that has worked in that field or prior work history pay scale is close to what he is offering. He just can’t waste time with turnover.
Lets not forget the 99ers – Also don’t forget who caused the delay in the extensions vote them out!