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Unemployment Benefits to Expire Sunday After Senate Stalemates On Extension

By ⋅ February 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(FOX NEWS) - Unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits will expire Sunday for millions of voters because the Senate was unable this week to pass a short-term extension, a failure that reflects partly the partisan gridlock that has stalled the Democratic legislative agenda and partly the Senate rules that allows one lawmaker [...]

More than $74,000 in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims discovered in Southern Tier

By ⋅ January 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(PRESS CONNECTS) - State labor officials on Monday said 19 people in the Southern Tier illegally took $74,191 from New York’s unemployment insurance trust fund.
Seven from Broome County were charged in the state investigation and are accused of taking $27,291, said New York Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith.
Others charged include four from Chemung County ($9,144); [...]

Editorial: California must avert unemployment insurance fund disaster

By ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(INSIDE BAY AREA) - CALIFORNIA’S 12.5 percent unemployment rate is the worst since 1940, at the end of the Great Depression. As a result, the state’s jobless benefit fund is heading for a fiscal crises unless the Legislature acts to prevent it.
During the robust economy earlier in the decade, the Legislature significantly increased unemployment benefits, [...]

O’Malley to pledge help on unemployment insurance

By ⋅ November 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(THE WASHINGTON POST) - Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) will promise Thursday night to work with business leaders to find a “more sustainable solution” to a state employment insurance system under which tax rates are tripling next year for many Maryland companies.
The pledge is included in the governor’s prepared remarks to a gathering of the Maryland [...]

Cap Wrap - Back to the Top 10 Rule & Unemployment Insurance

By ⋅ May 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(DALLAS NEWS) - The House is starting to get pretty crowded, bill-wise, with a long backlog of major state bills that have been postponed until now. First on the list is a bill addressing the top 10 percent law, a policy that grants automatic admission to public universities to seniors at the top of their [...]

Cap Wrap - Unemployment Insurance & Top 10 Percent

By ⋅ May 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(DALLAS NEWS) - The House has four bills on today’s major state calendar, including a Republican rebuke of Gov. Rick Perry’s rejection of $555 million in federal stimulus funds tied to unemployment insurance. Perry claimed the funds would force Texas to widen its policy toward unemployment insurance, and would apply even after the stimulus funds [...]

Senate should hold firm on jobless insurance bill

By ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(The News Tribune) - The Legislature is sure to do something to fix the state’s unemployment insurance program in the coming days. The question is whether, in throwing a bone to labor, Democrats will sell out businesses.
Lawmakers were expected to deliver a one-two boost to jobless benefits this year. Workers got their share earlier this [...]

United Benefit Advisors Releases Results of New 2009 UBA Employer Benefit Perspectives Survey

By ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Employer Opinions Provide Important Benefit Data For Accessing Market Trends
Indianapolis, IN (Vocus) April 21, 2009 — United Benefit Advisors, LLC (UBA), one of the nation’s leading employee benefits advisory organizations, today announced the release of the 2009 UBA Employer Benefit Perspectives survey, which delineates employers’ positions and opinions on Employee Communications, Personal Health Management and [...]

Unemployment insurance:

By ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(journalgazette) - A biennial budget should have been the toughest task Indiana lawmakers faced in this most challenging of legislative sessions. A structural deficit in the state’s unemployment trust fund changed that. As layoffs increased and jobless Hoosiers filed for benefits, the fund quickly went bust.
As of last week, Indiana had borrowed $725 million from [...]

Unemployment insurance slows recession

By ⋅ April 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(The Business Journal) - Payments of unemployment insurance benefits have helped buffer against the impact of the recession in the Triad and in all of the state’s counties, according to a report issued by the N.C. Justice Center.
That report tallied a total of $3.7 billion in economic activity resulting from the payment of $2.2 billion [...]

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