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The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman Jim McDermott that would give an extra 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless workers in states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or more.
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Illinois. The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.3% in July, AP reported, which is still pretty low despite a slowdown in hiring and job growth. According to Business Insider, Illinois’ unemployment ...
Averaging out unemployment claims over the last five weeks shows that Michigan, Florida, and Alabama were hit with the highest spike in people applying for unemployment benefits. Coronavirus job ...
When it comes to taking advantage of tax breaks included in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill, location really is everything. One-quarter of the states are not offering a ...
99ers is a colloquial term for unemployed people in the United States, mostly citizens, who have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, including all unemployment extensions. As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress in February 2009, many unemployed people could receive up to 99 weeks of unemployment ...
The coronavirus relief bill allowed for a $10,200 exemption from federal income tax on unemployment insurance payments to taxpayers who had less than $150,000 in modified adjusted gross income in...