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Unemployment Benefits And Its Blunder

Bernadette - May 30 2012, 10:02 PM

Unemployment benefits are coming to an end for many of the long-term unemployed.

"The checks are stopping for the people who have the most difficulty finding work: the long-term unemployed.

More than five million people have been out of work for longer than half a year. Federal benefit extensions, which supplemented state funds for payments up to 99 weeks, were intended to tide over the unemployed until the job market improved.

In February, when the program was set to expire, Congress renewed it, but also phased in a reduction of the number of weeks of extended aid and made it more difficult for states to qualify for the maximum aid. Since then, the jobless in 23 states have lost up to five months

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