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Just checking the PA website for any updates, news, etc. and I stumbled upon this gem regarding PA EB (below). Now how hard would it have been to use a precise percentage number instead of using "certain level prescribed". It's not like they do not know this number, but they choose not to disclose it...WHY????
Thank goodness for the helpful folks on this board that continuously monitor and help explain this whole mess. I know the "certain level prescribed" is mentioned as an exact percentage number in the FAQs on this board (8.5%).... but to the millions of other folks collecting benefits that do not know about this site, they are just living in limbo.
State Extended Benefits (EB)
Extended Benefits are additional weeks of unemployment compensation payable to qualified workers when certain adverse economic conditions exist in Pennsylvania. These conditions are based upon the state's unemployment rate reaching a certain level prescribed by the Pennsylvania UC Law. When these conditions exist statewide, the Department of Labor and Industry declares an Extended Benefit period. On February 21, 2009, a state Extended Benefit period triggered on in Pennsylvania.
Extended benefits are payable to qualified individuals only after they have exhausted all rights to regular benefits under the Pennsylvania UC Law and federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation. Extended Benefits are only payable during an Extended Benefit period.
EB is expected to trigger off during late April 2012, and end three weeks later during May. The last payable week of regular EB is expected to be the week ending May 12, 2012.
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