Unemployment Compensation

this extension doesn't add additional weeks of benefits; it keeps the above structure in place for an additional 13 months.

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Cartoon: Unemployment Extension

Cartoon: Unemployment Extension and Debt

Cartoon: Unemployment Benefits

Losing Unemployment Benefits

Of the almost 1.2 million workers facing a cut off of benefits in March alone:

380,000 workers will exhaust their 26 weeks of state benefits without accessing the temporary EUC extension program or the permanent federal program of Extended Benefits.

Another 814,000 workers will not be eligible to continue receiving EUC past their current tier of benefits.

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