Unemployment 4th extension: 20 weeks for Californians (federal, percentage, year)

[screen.name]

I read that they can/will break the jam on Tuesday (Mar 2) and approve the one month extension. Just wonder how many of this 1 month extension they plan to do. Last time, it was a 2-month extension to buy some times for more permanent solution. But 2 month gone by and nothing. Shouldn't they spend more time on job creation than health care?

[kathleen12]

in ca if you mailed in your last claim form for tier 3 on Feb 27th .then you are ten elegible for tier 1V right? please someone answer. i can't make since out EDD so confusing.

[screen.name]

Looks like they are going more a more permanent solution instead of 1-month extension:

Dems’ Latest Unemployment Extension Unveiled « The Washington Independent

[boowho]

I just want to put out a Thank You to all of you who are keeping all the latest updates available on this forum. You have been very helpful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[sp94corrado]

I’m so confused with all this talk about tiers. Can someone please explain?
My husband was laid off June 26, 2009. He got his 26 weeks and now we are on his first extension, which I believe is 20 weeks.
Will he be eligible for another extension??

[victoria trimble]

My tier 2 Fed Ed 1 week check will arrive on Friday. That means that that extension expired on the 28th of February. Does anyone know if I will be eligible for the 6 week tier 4 extension?

[newsman2]

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/02/jobless.benefits.bill/index.html"]Senate passes $10 billion jobless benefits measure - CNN.com[/URL]

[Jakks]

So far its only a 30 day filing extension.

Bunning Ends Filibuster, Senate Votes to Extend Unemployment - ABC News

Bunning Ends Filibuster, Senate to Votes to Extend Unemployment


$10B Bill Passes After Republican Reaches Deal with Majority Leader Reid


By KRISTINA WONG
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2010

78 comments



The Senate tonight passed a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of people around the country whose benefits expire this week, hours after Kentucky Republican Sen. Jim Bunning backed off from his blockade of the legislation.


Bunning had said he would filibuster the bill unless the Senate made spending cuts elsewhere to pay for it, but this evening, he struck an agreement with Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid to allow the vote to proceed.



The unemployment extension, which also included COBRA subsidies, authorization for higher pay for Medicare doctors and funding for federal highway programs, passed 78-19.



Under the deal with Bunning, Reid agreed to allow a vote on a measure to offset the bill's $10 billion cost with cuts in other programs. However, the off-set measure is expected to fail, and the unemployment extension bill will not be paid for after all.



"I hope Senate Democrats tonight vote for their own pay-fors and show Americans that they are committed to fiscal discipline. I will be watching them closely and checking off the hypocrites one by one," Bunning said in a written statement this evening before the vote.



Bunning's obstruction, however, continues on another front.
Democrats say he has put a hold on all pending presidential nominations, effectively blocking "several dozen" of President Obama's nomations.

[screen.name]

Obama signed the 30-day extension bill
Senate passes jobless bill; Obama to sign - Total Buzz : The Orange County Register

[southerncalimomma]

I read those articles and I am still a little confused. I will not qualify for tier 4 since my tier 3 claim still has a few more weeks on it, but the article says for states with a percentage of 8% or more the fed ed extension is only 6 weeks..... is that right? I am really confused about what happens when my tier 3 claim is up. Is there anyone that can help me understand. EDD just tells me to keep monitoring their site for info.