Not to continue this, I really am just curious. If anyone is actually reading this I was wondering if it was commonly accepted that the unemployment insurance extensions that are being talked about are in addition to existing benefits.
Is that what most people think? Why do I expect you to know? Beats me. I’ll settle for personal opinion.
I don’t know if it’s because I know people who are looking for work or because I research stuff – or both – but I did know that the extension earlier in the year and the current proposal merely reauthorize the current level of benefits. There was an earlier change to add 73 weeks to the 26 weeks previously available, but the funding is only for that. That’s why all the talk about the 99ers.
Maybe it’s the use of the word extension, which I do myself, but none of this adds any additional weeks to unemployment benefits. I don’t know if that is deliberate misdirection by some or simply the problem of using shorthand to describe things, probably the latter. I think that people may have the wrong idea about what is being talked about.
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