Paterson signs bill granting additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless New Yorkers

Paterson signs bill granting additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless New Yorkers
BY Glenn Blain
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU

Thursday, May 21st 2009, 4:00 AM



ALBANY - Gov. Paterson signed legislation granting an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless New Yorkers.

"This will save 56,000 New Yorkers who would have been off the unemployment insurance list this week," Paterson said.

The legislation, which was passed by the Senate and Assembly this week, extends unemployment benefits beyond the current 59-week limit and allows the state to receive up to $645 million in federal stimulus funds to pay for the added costs.

Paterson said the legislation also grants benefits to people who must leave work to care for an immediate family member who is ill or who must move to accompany a spouse to a new job.

New York's total unemployment rate for April was 7.8%, Paterson said.
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Naugahyde wrote: i resigned from my job in early March and have thus been ineligible for benefits as well ... even though i've been living hand to mouth ever since (no severance, savings & credit decimated), i'm actually grateful that i got to go through the experience of intense poverty - all but homeless, and that is coming around the bend - now, while things are relatively stable. it's been a hell of an education. btw, i've been looking for work - any work at all - and it looks like i finally have a good clean shot at something in my field, doing web marketing for a law firm specializing in mortgage "workouts" and foreclosure defense ... should i land it, i expect that it'll be pretty educational in its own right

back on topic - you gotta assume these state benefits are keeping the murder and robbery rates artificially low ...
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$405 max a week a believe
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the problem is no one can find jobs and if/when they actually end the unemployment its going to get really ugly really fast. you can hang on by your fingernails w/300 a week but when thats cut its over
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