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Starting Sep 2, 2012, reduced to 9 weeks of benefits (4 weeks moved from Tier 3 to Tier 4) Eligible to claimants who exhaust EUC Tier 2 benefits; Enacted Nov 6, 2009; Available in states with a: 3-month seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate (TUR) of at least 6.0%; or 13-week insured unemployment rate (IUR) of at least 4.0%
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.
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.
In 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...
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New Jersey’s beleaguered unemployment system has made strides since the jobless rate soared to its highest level in 40 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a report released Wednesday found ...
The bill would also amend the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2014, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an ...
In 2020, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law reducing the waiting period for striking employees to receive unemployment benefits from seven weeks to two weeks. Story continues below photo ...