Long Term Unemployed Benefits Extension
Jobless workers who have exhausted their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits for 99 weeks (from Tiers 1-4) otherwise known as the 99ers remains hopeful as a new bill that would create a Tier 5 of Unemployment Extension is being cooked up in the Senate.
The new legislation known as the “Americans Want to Work Act” which was introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is expected to essentially provide additional sustenance for unemployed workers for more than 99 weeks plus tax cuts for businesses that will hire new workers who have been out and looking for work.
The bill is cosponsored by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Harry Reid (D-NV), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Carl Levin (D-MI), Bob Casey (D-PA), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
The Americans Want to Work Act if passed will provide 20 weeks of unemployment benefits extension for individuals in states where unemployment rate is 7.5% or higher.
However, eligibility for weekly claims would still oblige individuals to meet regular unemployment insurance law requirements.
If you’re one of the many hopeful 99ers waiting for the government to do something with your condition, this is absolutely a blessing to look forward to. So share this post now with your friends and family.
If you’re one of the lucky workers with a job today, do you think this bill urgently needs passing or is just another disincentive? Have your say in the comments or simply answer the poll below.
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I’m a 99er in Texas and I’m desperate! Tuesday, 10 Aug 2010 at Noon
Tier 5 folks, I need your help FAST.
Do you have any readers in Dallas, Fort Worth, Mid-Cities area of Texas?
Our Message: Washington corruption is what put 99ers in the position we’re in today. They’ve snubbed the people they reduced to poverty. The longest-unemployed-workers did not create this depression, Washington did; with failure to regulate the banks, health industry, and corporations.
The EVENT is Tuesday:”Fight Washington Corruption Action” Here are the event details: Rep. Kenny Marchant’s District Office 9901 East Valley Ranch Parkway, Suite 3035 Irving, TX 75063
Please help me, I’ve never done this b4 & I’m scared I’ll be alone.
JOIN ME plus invite others to sign up for event, use this link:http://pol.moveon.org/event/pledgerally/106035
This would be a blessing for all the hard working people who have lost their jobs and cannot find work. A vote for the 99ers is a vote for the senators that vote for the new bill that would create a tier 5.
I am 59 years old and have paid into unemployment “insurance” for 40 years. I lost my job over a year ago and the field I was in has been phased out by technology. This is NOT charity—after all I’ve paid into this, I should be able to get substantially more back especially since we have to keep paying for other government actions we don’t even agree with and that are costing all of us not just money but taking American lives. Living in Arizona is even harder because most of our politicians are self-absorbed idiots.
99ERS NEEDS THIS BILL ASAP! SCHOOLS ARE STARTING YOU KNOW KIDS CAN BE BRUTAL WITH NAME CALLING, PICKING AT LESS FORTUNATE KIDS WHO’S PARENTS THAT ARE OUT OF WORK. CRIME RATE ARE INCREASING AS WE 99ERS WAIT FOR THE BILL TO PASS, BEEN WORKING SINCE I WAS 15 ITS ALL ABOUT TO GO DOWN THE DRAIN. THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET EVEN POORIER! I FEEL FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS BUT I THINK AMERICA SHOULD TAKE CAN HOME BEFORE HELPING ANOTHER COUNTRY, LOOK AT THE MILLIONS SENT TO ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES. BUT AMERICANS BORN AND RAISED HERE SUFFER LIKE WE ARE NOT AMERICANS. MY SYMPANTHY GOES OUT TO ALL THATS NOT DOING WELL BUT AMERICA NEEDS TO CLEAN UP AROUND HOME BEFORE THEY CAN CLEAN UP A NIEGHBORS MESS!
i think the tier 5 is a great idea. ive been unemployed for along time and every day i look for work. i recently got my ged in hopes of finding a job. the goverment needs to step in and creat more jobs but till then they need to extend unemployment
At first, I was reluctant to vote ‘no’ if this was disincentive, since, as we all know November election is approaching. Sen. Stabenow & other Dems should’ve
thought about it long lime ago. But being one of them 99er’s- and would welcome the passage of this act. I voted no but with some reservations. GOP’s are definitely going to filibuster- they never want to pass anything that has something to do with Obama, period! What a shame and lot’s of 99er’s will be affected and disappointed further! Hoping for the best!
I have been unemployed since 2008. I search for work consistently and to date still have not landed a job!!! My unemployment is about to expire!!! What do we need to do in order for a tier 5 to be passed? Help us 99ers!!!
I just received my prozac today thru mail order from the county hospital. I’ll have to go pick up the sleep aid since ita a controlled sustance, soo as I can get the $5.75 round trip fair I need. I can’t beileve this. I am 52 and have been working since I was 14. Always had a job. i have a college education. Working since age 14 doing road clean up, pickle pushing, office work, something up until 2 years a ago.
Listen I live in MD and I need my TIER5 that is BS that we dont get because our unemployment is not high enough. Who cares I dont have a job therefore I NEED MONET TO LIVE ON I DONT CARE HOW MUCH MY STATE unemployment is. DO TOY HEAR ME DC? DONT MAKE SOME BS LAW ABOUT STATES
99 ers should be helped with an extention… (9 percent of them are looking for work and are willing to take anything at this point . Maybe our senate and congress should stop giving all the aid to foreign countries and start helping people in this country first.
I meant 99 percent are looking for work— not 9 percent
Get on it Congress.. America is waiting for help!!!
I have been unemployed since Dec 2008. I actively searched for employment from Dec 08 until March 09, when I entered retraining. My current associate degree is 22 years old and I am gray and bald. My resume and appearance are highly complemented, but my skills do not reflect what the current market needs.Retraining is my only option. I applied for training benefits (a 26-week extension of benefit payments); but I was denied because I didn’t submit my application within 90 days after I lost my job. I appealed, but I could not satisfy the standard I failed to apply within the 90-day limit. My emergency benefits run out at the end of October. Without additional unemployment assistance, my retraining may come to naught. For me, Tier 5 is not a handout, it’s a leg up. And I’m asking for a leg up. I’m appreciative for all assistance I’ve received so far.
That March 09 date should have been March 2010!
I’m a 99er but I live in a state where the unemployment rate is 6.5%, I worked for a company out of Michigan and was laid off because the company closed. I can’t seem to find work even with 15 years of experience and a BS degree. This “Americans want to work act” is great for the 99ers but it doesn’t help me because my states rate is below the 7.5%. Why should only states with higher unemployment rate get the benefits when all american tax payers flip the bill. I am too effected and just cause my states population is not like PA, MI or OH and the rate is low doesn’t mean they should not include those states everyone state should be covered by this ACT. Its unfair to exclude them.
I have been unemployed since 2008.I have been completly broke sense May of 2010.Congress needs to create a tier 5 extention or build more jails,but they better do something cause folks are not being given much choice!
I think that most of us 99ers are desperate given the fact that we have most likely been without benefits for 6 months or more. This is really hard for me to make any sense of. I see no reason as to why the Democrates could not have become more aggressive and just passed the tier 5 long ago. The more I read about this issue the harder it is for me to support Democrates. At this point, the only reason why I will vote for the Dem’s is just to keep the Republicans out of office.
The Tier 5 extension would be such a big help to my family and everyone else on this struggle of unemploymnet. I have worked over 30 years and never experienced such a jobless crisis. I agree with one of the other unemployed QUIT giving billion dollars to these foreign countries as well as asking to feed the poor in Africa. What about us. I’m also sick and tired of the House taking long breaks while were all suffering to put food on the table and paying our bills. They need to be put in our shoes for one week and see the feel of NO WORK is. I’m tired of the biggering back and fourth do something for the American People NOW.