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20 Jun, 2014

Unemployment benefit restoration

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Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduce new legislation to restore emergency unemployment benefits. Unlike the Reed/Heller bill passed by the Senate in April 2014, this bill does not include retroactive payments for jobless Americans. Any unemployed person whose aid was ended in December would be eligible to receive insurance payments for as many weeks as they had remaining when benefits ceased. Reed states:

I would rather fix the entire problem, but there’s not the votes to do everything. I understand that some people will say, ‘this is not fair. I was cut off for two months before I was able to find a job and this bill isn’t retroactive so it won’t cover me.’ I agree that this program should never have been forced to expire and it is unfair that partisan gridlock in the House prevented the bipartisan, Senate-passed Reed-Heller fix from ever getting an up or down vote and becoming law.

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