Extended Unemployment Insurance Stopping Short In Several States - Check the list for your state

Extended unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term jobless are set to expire this month in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Tennessee, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

In Missouri, a Republican state senator who filibustered a bill that would maintain the state's eligibility for EB relented on Tuesday, deciding to focus his anti-spending efforts on federal stimulus measures instead of federal unemployment benefits.

The National Employment Law Project expects Alaska, Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia to trigger off EB benefits after the Labor Department releases state unemployment rates later this month.

California, Colorado, and Michigan have changed their laws to maintain eligibility for the benefits, according to the Labor Department. (Though Michigan curtailed future state benefits at the same time it changed its EB trigger.)

Pugsrit wrote:I recognize some of you from the old site. I hope everyone is well. I am from MO and as you know we have a senator that blocked the vote to accept fed funds for EB but has relented apparently. I was shocked when I went on the NELP site and realized that these checks will stop for everyone at various times in the upcoming months. I think NV is the only safe state.

Pugsrit wrote:I recognize some of you from the old site. I hope everyone is well. I am from MO and as you know we have a senator that blocked the vote to accept fed funds for EB but has relented apparently. I was shocked when I went on the NELP site and realized that these checks will stop for everyone at various times in the upcoming months. I think NV is the only safe state.

DesperateInRI wrote:

Pugsrit wrote:I recognize some of you from the old site. I hope everyone is well. I am from MO and as you know we have a senator that blocked the vote to accept fed funds for EB but has relented apparently. I was shocked when I went on the NELP site and realized that these checks will stop for everyone at various times in the upcoming months. I think NV is the only safe state.

Rhode Island is another safe state. Our Governor and General Assembly have no plans to cut it off. EB here is state funded. The state has already taken action to preserve it due to the high unemployment rate, which I believe is the third or fourth highest in the country right now at 11.5%. I also believe California has also taken measures to ensure EB stays in place through this period of hight unemployment.

lendmeflight2 wrote:

DesperateInRI wrote:

Pugsrit wrote:I recognize some of you from the old site. I hope everyone is well. I am from MO and as you know we have a senator that blocked the vote to accept fed funds for EB but has relented apparently. I was shocked when I went on the NELP site and realized that these checks will stop for everyone at various times in the upcoming months. I think NV is the only safe state.

Rhode Island is another safe state. Our Governor and General Assembly have no plans to cut it off. EB here is state funded. The state has already taken action to preserve it due to the high unemployment rate, which I believe is the third or fourth highest in the country right now at 11.5%. I also believe California has also taken measures to ensure EB stays in place through this period of hight unemployment.

EB is state funded in NC as well but we lose it in 7 days unless this new bill passes. Our unemployment rate is 9.7%. I would not take for granted that you will continue in the program and start making calls and emails now.

Pugsrit wrote:I recognize some of you from the old site. I hope everyone is well. I am from MO and as you know we have a senator that blocked the vote to accept fed funds for EB but has relented apparently. I was shocked when I went on the NELP site and realized that these checks will stop for everyone at various times in the upcoming months. I think NV is the only safe state.

660 wrote:
Missouri must be a teapartier's shangri la.

MoInSTL wrote:

660 wrote:
Missouri must be a teapartier's shangri la.

It is. It's a Red State for sure and the head of some tea party I have seen interviewed on TV lives here in St. Louis. KC & STL always vote democratic and the presidential election was closer than those in the past. One of the reasons I left 30 years ago (but moved back 6 years ago for cheaper home prices).