S.2544 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008
A bill to provide for a program of temporary extended unemployment compensation. view all titles (2)
All Bill Titles
- Short: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 as introduced.
- Official: A bill to provide for a program of temporary extended unemployment compensation. as introduced.
This Bill currently has no wiki content. If you would like to create a wiki entry for this bill, please Login, and then select the wiki tab to create it.
Bill's Views
- Today: 164
- Past Seven Days: 479
- All-Time: 215,739
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Committees
OpenCongress Summary
This bill would provide 20 more weeks of unemployment insurance benefits to those who exhausted their benefits within the past year and are still unemployed. In states with exceptionally high unemployment, it would provide for an additional 13 weeks of benefits. It would also increase all individual benefits by $50 per week.This bill has been replaced by new legislation - H.R.6867.
Official Summary
1/22/2008--Introduced.Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 - Provides for federal-state agreements under which a state will make temporary extended unemployment compensation payments to individuals who: (1) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under stateOfficial Summary
1/22/2008--Introduced.Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 - Provides for federal-state agreements under which a state will make temporary extended unemployment compensation payments to individuals who:
(1) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under state or federal law with respect to a benefit year (excluding any benefit year that ended before one year before the enactment of this Act);
(2) have no rights to regular compensation or extended compensation with respect to a week under such law or any other state or federal unemployment compensation law;
(3) are not receiving compensation for such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada; and
(4) filed an initial claim for regular compensation on or after one year before the enactment of this Act. Requires federal payments to states to cover 100% of such temporary extended unemployment compensation payments. Provides for handling of fraud and overpayments of unemployment compensation.
...Read the Rest
Recent News Coverage
Hmmmm, no news coverage found for this bill at this time. This means that this this bill has not yet been mentioned on a publicly-searchable news website by either its official number (for example, "H.R. 3200") or title (for example, "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"). As soon as that changes, our daily automated search across the Web will catch it and include it here. If this bill is of interest to you, you can write a letter to the editor referring to this bill by name, and if your letter is published on the Web, a link back your letter will appear here within about one day. Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build public knowledge about Congress.
Recent Blog Coverage
View All (138)
|
View Top Rated
OpenCongress - OpenCongress Blog - Obama's 'American Recovery and ...
Most Viewed Bills:. S.2433 · S.2544 · H.R.5749 · H.R.1424 · H.R.3221 · S.3001. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation. Questions? Comments? Contact Us ...
OpenCongress - OpenCongress Blog - Blagojevich to Appoint Obama ...
Most Viewed Bills:. S.2433 · S.2544 · H.R.5749 · H.R.1424 · H.R.3221 · S.3001. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation. Questions? Comments? Contact Us ...
Neda Blog: Unemployment extension
S.2544 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 on OpenCongress Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 A bill to provide for a program of. SAVANNAH, Ga. (WLS) -- The extension will mean some people ...
Users tracking S.2544 (433) are also tracking:
| Bills | People | Issues |
|---|---|---|
Users supporting S.2544 (304) are also:
| Supporting Bill | Supporting Senator | Supporting Representative |
|---|---|---|
| Opposing Bill | Opposing Senator | Opposing Representative |
|---|---|---|
Users opposing S.2544 (61) are also:
| Supporting Bill | Supporting Senator | Supporting Representative |
|---|---|---|
| Opposing Bill | Opposing Senator | Opposing Representative |
|---|---|---|

U.S. Congress - S.2544 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008



