Filing Unemployment Since the general economy began to decline and the overall poverty level of citizens throughout the United States has increased, the number of people who are filing unemployment applications throughout the country has significantly increased. Many people are surprised to discover that the laws related to unemployment benefits are much different than what [...]
How Does Unemployment Work? Unemployment insurance compensation dates back to the Social Security Act of 1935, where the Social Security Administration was charged with implementing and overseeing the first United States unemployment program. Since then the oversight of unemployment has shifted from the Social Security Administration to the individual state department of welfare or department [...]
Unemployment Benefits By State As the economic recovery of the United States has slowed to a virtual crawl over the past few years the demand for state and federal unemployment benefits has skyrocketed. This trend looks to continue itself for the foreseeable future as the US unemployment rate remains above historical averages and the country [...]
Federal Unemployment The United States unemployment insurance programs available throughout the country are a hybrid structure. The federal government has set forth the general parameters and outlines of the country’s unemployment benefits and has left each individual state to determine for itself how to fill in many of the details. Despite individual state differences much [...]
Unemployment Extension 2010 During 2010 Congress passed laws that involved unemployment extensions for state benefits as well as a federal unemployment benefits extension plan. These changes to the law were necessitated by persistently high unemployment numbers, with the United States consistently hanging above a 9.0% unemployment rate, which includes almost two million unemployed individuals throughout [...]
Unemployment Benefits Extension As the economic turmoil continues throughout the United States, more and more people have turned to unemployment benefits and, in many cases, unemployment benefits extension payments to stay financially afloat. However, current unemployment extension laws are set to change following the end of 2011. These changes come on the heels of one [...]
Unemployment Extension One topic that seems to be in the news on a regular basis is whether Congress will continue to allow for an unemployment extension of unemployment insurance benefits. The availability of benefits has shifted multiple times over the course of the last several years and has been a part of multiple pieces of [...]
Extension of Unemployment Benefits The laws dealing with the extension of unemployment benefits have undergone several different changes since Congress and President Obama implemented the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Under that 2009 law, individuals were granted the opportunity to receive (in some instances) not only an economic recovery payment but also [...]
Unemployment Extensions Following the passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in 2009, unemployment benefit extensions have been provided by Congress on multiple occasions. The net result of unemployment benefits extended has been to allow people to receive up to 99 weeks (i.e., almost two years) worth of unemployment benefits (when state and federal [...]
