Posts in 'Unemployment Compensation'

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) will today (May 20, 2010) release legislative text of the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, legislation to provide critical tax cuts and support for American workers through

TAA Amendments Have Yielded Significant Jump in Petitions and Certifications for Retraining & Health Benefits Following Trade-Related Layoffs One year after a significant expansion of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, today the National

Article from the Philadelphia Business Journal discussing the $273 million in federal stimulus funding Pennsylvania has lying in wait, which can be drawn down by making changes to the state’s unemployment compensation law. Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services is quoted in the article

The United States Senate passed a two-month extension of eligibility for unemployment insurance and tax credits to help cover the cost of health insurance premiums for Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own on April 15, 2010. The bill also restores these critical benefits

Despite a delay in Congress, Pennsylvanians receiving emergency unemployment compensation benefits should continue to file their bi-weekly claims, Labor & Industry Secretary Sandi Vito said on April 1. Although the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation, or EUC, program begins to phase out

The National Employment Law Project has released the following statement in response to the successful action of one senator to block, for a second time, the extension of existing federal jobless programs set to expire on April 5th. The obstruction, this time by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), could

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has released new national and state-by-state analyses finding that nearly 1.2 million jobless workers will become ineligible for federal unemployment benefits in March unless Congress extends the unemployment safety net programs from the American Recovery

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) reports that on December 19, 2009, President Obama signed legislation (H.R. 3326) reauthorizing a number of important provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that help unemployed workers. As a result, a number of key programs will be

State Labor Commissioners Join in Calling on Congress to Swiftly Renew Unemployment & COBRA Benefits The National Employment Law Project (NELP), the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Half in Ten Campaign released a report detailing the severe economic and human costs by state if key

The National Employment Law Project has developed a new fact sheet entitled Questions & Answers About Benefit Extensions under H.R. 3548, the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009. This sheet attempts to explain the unemployment compensation extension that was signed into law on