Bill H3548 – 13 Weeks Unemployment Benefit Extension For High Unemployment States

oh my they are on right nowww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yaaaa! senator Jack Reed of rhode island is addressing it currently! on cspan

HI HOW YA DOIN
STILL WAITIN ON YOUR GOVERNMENT
NO JOB S NO CASH NO GOVERNMENT
HEY THERE GETTING READY FOR THERE
UMTENTH VACATION ON YOUR DIME
YOUR HOUSE PAYMENT S
THEY WANT YA TO GIVE THAT BACK TO THE BANK THAT THE GOVERNMENT GAVE BILLION S OF YOUR DOLLAR S TO
SO THEY CAN LOAN THE CASH BACK TO THE PEOPLE AT 9 %
NOW THAT S SCAM
YOU GO GOV
THAT S WHY THIS GOV S GONNA CRUMBLE
FEED THE RICH KILL THE POOR

RE:Sherri’s Text
Lets of course keep calling Majority Leader Harry Reid 202 224-3542 & fax 202 224-7327. Sen. Max Baucus is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee that has been living & breathing Healtcare Reform hearings for 2wks. His fax# is 202 224-9412 AND tel# 1800 332-6106 ( his reg# 202 224-2651 states the office is closed but for urgent matters to call the tollfree # ) White House tel# 202 456-1111 fax# 202 456-2461.

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The president i hope you will pass this bill for unemployment las
vegas has been hit real hard. and i’m sure many other states have been hit to i feel that 13 weeks is great but it’s not going to be enough
most of the familys who are on unemployment make to much for food
stamps so they also have to use their unemployment for food so they
barely make it their benifits should increase by 50.00 instead of 25.00 dollars and the bill should include 26 extending weeks their
are going to be alot more forclosure homes if all the people who are
on unemployment lose their homes aswell I never thought in 43 yrs
living in las vegas it would be like this I know Mr. president you don’t
care for some things in las vegas I agree but people rely on casinos here as their hope for a life and the shows not everyone is a gambler
we have beautiful places out here to visit aswell. I am upset with las
vegas because before the ression retired people payed alot less for
their medical insurance but know they have tripled it for retired
people which is rediculus. Las vegas has had alot of issues of continue
to build and build we need to stop. our power bills here are as much
as a low income family pays for their morgage with a fixed rate they
keep getting raises and raises. why can’t low income familys 50.000
and less get grants for total solar panel installation this 700 to 900
power bills they get could be used to by clothing food soda appliances
for there homes this will all stimulate the econmy somehow . Oh well
i am just another statistic that will lose my home before next year
I pray for all you people out their in the same situation as me and my family I hope god is listing and for those who doubt their is a god
lets hope our elected officials can do something.

No matter what congrats to all on all the sites about this.
If they work as hard as alot did to get it done.Just imagine how much would really get done this seems the way to really get things done and fire under their butts.
Thanks all who work so hard for what we all need here.And thankgod to the internet for the help that it gives us to do so.This is diffently something greater.

The current extension that I am on expires the first week of January. If I am still unemployed at that time, does that mean that I am screwed out of luck for applying for any of the HR3548 extensions or other extensions? I’m confused about the actual dates and details of HR3548, especially since they are still amending them in Congress. Any help appreciated!!!

What about the ones who are still unemployed since Feb 09. And still can’t find work they are still leaving us out. They should extend for all people that are struggling. Obama needs to do another stimulus for the ones who are still out of work and extend the unemployment for everybody.

PLEASE everyone email your story to [email protected]…..rachel maddow………….if she gets flooded she will probably talk it up on todays show!!!!She loves to make fun of the senators

Meeeeeeeeeeeeee

most everyone is under the stimulus link on here.
go back to the top of this page.

we need 2 bring jobs here instead of out soucing jobs like mine i hear gm is going 2 start making cars in china im not happy with the direction of this country IS GOING

Anything that comes into customs from another country, that could be and should be made here in the U.S. should be taxed way way more than it is.

They are constantly postponing this bill, at a time when it is critical to pass. We are desparate and out of resources to feed our families, keep the utilities on and many are homeless or getting evicted at this point. I have been without a check since July 30, 2009 and out of work since May 2008. Nonetheless, I am diligently looking for work any work and yet nothing not even an interview. I am in my fourth year of college and I am getting depressed as this was my last attempt to make myself more marketable and may not be able to continue with my online studies as I have received shut off notices for both utilities and internet/phone providers. That means all of my hard work is down the drain and how can a potential employer reach me now???? These opposing Senators are not moving forward; their excuses are we need more time to review, we need a CBO report and we need to make amendments, we don’t want to tax employers. Well, guess what, you have had ample time to address these issues and come up with a better plan to pass this bill with swift passage as the emergency that it is. Yet, you have taken break after break and even given yourselves a raise. Oh, and cash for clunkers should never take precedence over starving families right here in American, especially of the working class. We have paid taxes for decades and worked hard to help this nation grow and this is what we get in return when we need you the most?? Senate wake up. You can not just sweep us under the rug, as we are growing in numbers of 7,000 each week. That’s not even including those of us who have exhausted our benefits and are still looking for work, not to mentioned the hundreds of thousands on welfare now forced to attend job search classes and are applying for the same jobs that we are. The numbers are outrageously higher than you are reporting!!! The cold weather is here and the holidays are coming, how dare you think it is alright for you and your families to enjoy the heat and comfort of a home with three course meals and gift exchanging when hundreds of thousands of Americans will not. We have paid into the unemployment insurance pot for many years and deserve an extension if you will not create more jobs. It’s one or the other or economy will suffer an even worse fate as each day comes in and goes out. Are you waiting for this to hit a point of no return? Please recognize the urgency for the passing of the safety net/life line (emergency unemployment extensions) H R 3548 now and pass it once and for all…………………We are hopeless, helpless and feel abandoned by the very people we voted in. Remember a vote to get in a vote to get out. That’s what you call political suicide. You are there to help this nation not destroy it. ACT NOW, NOT TOMORROW!!!

my unemoployment benfit ends anytime this month they gave me 7 weeks for my STATE EXTENDED BENEFIT, I WAS MADE TO BELIEVE IT SHOULE BE 13 WEEKD ANYWAY, WHY ARE THOSE PEOPLE DELAYING THE PASSING OF THE LAW, IT IS WINTER HERE IN RENO WHAT JOB DO THEY EXPECT US TO GET, ALL CASINOS ARE LAYING OFF, RETAILS ARE HIRING SEASONAL EMPLOYEE WHICH MEANS AFTER XMAS WE ARE JOBLESS AGIN PLUS ALL JOB SEARCH DO NOT RESPOND TO THEI ADS, THEY KEEP PUTTING THAT THEY ARE HIRING BUT THEY ARE NOT RESPONDING I GET TIRED APPLYING MAKING US BELIEVE THEY ARE HIRING BUT I GUESS IT IS ONLY FOR PUBLICITY.I AM VERY STREESED OUT MY DIABETES IS SHOOTING UP DUE TO THIS BENEFITS I DO NOT WANT TO BE IN THE STREET THIS HOLIDAY NOT PAYING MY BILLS SPECIALLY MY APT RENTAL.PLEASE SIGEN OUR BENFIT I AM AN OLD LADY LIVING BY MYSELF.

REPUBLICAN PARTY = RACIST GROUP OF DOWN SOUTH GOOD OL BOY S
NOT HAPPY THAT A BLACK MAN IS AT THE HELM
GONNA DO EVERY THING INCLUDING KILLING THE POOR
HOLD UP COMMON SENCE BILL S
AND GIVE THE REST OF OUR CASH TO WALL STREET
NOW WHY CAN T WE STOP THESE FREAK S IT S OUR CASH WASHINGTON DOES NT HAVE A PRODUCT IT S ALL US TAX PAYER MONEY
WHY DID THEY BLOW UP THE TRADE CENTER MAYBE THEY SAW THE REAL US GOV
MAYBE THE US PUBLIC SHOULD WAKE UP
I WORKED AND PAYED TAX S FOR 40 + YEAR S AND NOW CAN T GET A DIME BUT THEY SURE GAVE IT AWAY FOT CASH FOR CLUNKER S AND AIG CITI CORP WALL STREET
THEY GOT ALL OUR TAX DOLLAR S AND WE GOT THE SHAFT
FEED THE RICH AND KILL THE POOR
THE RICH LOVE OUR CASH WHEN DO WE GET OUR BAILOUT
WHO GAVE THE US GOV PERMITION TO RAID OUR POCKET S
AND LET PAULSON GO TO RUSSIA FOR SOME TOP SECRET MIOTION TO SCREW THE US TAX PAYER
GET USED TO IT IT S YOUR GOV

It looks Joe Biden should be sympathetic to our case. He says we?re in a depression:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/10/guest-post-biden-says-its-a-depression-for-millions-of-americans.html

US GOVERNMENT CAUSES MASIVE UNEMPLOYMENT
STEAL S BILLION S FROM THE TAX PAYER S
GIVE S BILLION S TO THE BANK S
THEY KEEP IT
WALL STREET GOES BACK TO THE SAME OLD FRAUD
TAKE S OUR MONEY GIVE S OUT RECORD BONES,S
US GOV IN SHOCK
GOT SWINDLED OUT OF THE BILLION S THEY STOLE TO BEGIN WITH
US CRASHES ANY WAY NO JOB S NO INCOME NO SHIT
PROBABLY LATE 2010 OR SOONER

WELL AFTER STEALING BILLION S OF TAX PAYER DOLLAR S
AND GIVING IT TO THE RICH BANKER S THAT KEPT THE CASH OUR CASHH THEN THE BIG A I G CITI GROUP AND WHO EVER ELSE THEY COULD FIND NOW THE REAL PEOPLE NEED SOME HELP AND THE SENATE S NO WERE TO BE FOUND
WELL SORRY BOUT YOUR LUCK IF YOUR POOR DIE ALREADY IT S ALL A SCAM
HAVE YA TRIED THE H E A P PROGRAM
THE NUMBER S 1-866-504-7392 IT S ANOTHER SCAM FOR YOUR UTILITIES GO AHEAD MAKE AN APPOINTMENT GOOD LUCK
THERE S NO ONE THERE AND THEY DON T HAVE A REAL PERSON YOUR SCREWED AGAIN
OH WELL THAT S THE GOV KILL THE POOR FEED THE RICH

Here is an update from :http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2009/10/23/unemployment-extension-2.htm

October 24 Update: Reports indicate that unemployment legislation will be on the agenda for the Senate next week, but there is no timeline for a vote on legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for the 2 million workers who are running out of unemployment. This week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senators Reed (D-RI), Shaheen (D-NH), Schumer (D-NY), Stabenow (D-MI), Menendez (D-NJ), Cardin (D-MD), Brown (D-OH), Casey (D-PA), Webb (D-VA), Klobuchar (D-MN), Kaufman (D-DE), Franken (D-MN) and Kirk (D-MA) called for the immediate passage of legislation that will extend unemployment insurance for the nearly 2 million Americans who will exhaust their benefits by the end of the year.

The pending legislation would extend unemployment insurance by up to 14 additional weeks for jobless workers in all states and up to 20 weeks in states with unemployment levels at or above 8.5%.

Angela,
This may apply for you also. You will probably just have to open another claim.

Angela,
I haven’t had a job since September 07, but after my 26 weeks ran out I went under extensions and then went under TRA. It ran out this month. What you need to do is open a new claim and then file each week. They don’t if you are working or not so you have to keep filing so they can have a paper trail even though you don’t receive a check. Each state may be different so just call the claims office and get the facts.

I have been looking for work since 3/2008 and am still looking! I trained to be an EKG tech after layed off in 2007….but they don’t tell you that you need experience to get a fulltime job. Without any experience, it’s only on-call and you can’t live on that. Still the schools are ready to take your money. By the way, pharmacy tech and phlebotomy tech jobs are the same….no experience, only on-call positions available!

As for unemployment, mine runs out this month. Bills have to be paid, especially my health insurance (as I have health problems) and we know the credit cards aren’t giving any breaks. Winter is coming, the holidays are coming and there is no way to deal with either one. If I’m lucky, my mom will let me put my name (along with hers) on the gift tags again. She let me do that last year, but everyone knows the truth, they just don’t say anything.

Too bad the government didn’t give those billions of dollars to us instead of the banks, etc. We could have paid our outstanding bills, helped the economy and not be in this god awful situation!!!

It’s time to rethink voting the same representatives and senators back into office!!! If they won’t help us, get rid of them and keep voting in new people until government gets the idea!

I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t. The rate they are going it may not be passed in January.

well iam on my last week of eb extension. now ill be like millions
of other out of work people with know income and on the way to
not being able to pay my bills. if the h3548 isnt passed soon alot
more people will be homeless me for one. after all these years of
working hard for a home now i may lose it all because congress
just dont care what happens to the lower class people. its time for
a change in our goverment. get off your butts and work for the
people and not aginst them.

Will this bill be passed next week My UI Teir #3 exhausted about a month and half ago, I am in college and still can’t find work, we moved to Savannah GA last year to find jobs my husband and I he found work and I was getting my UI from NJ now we don’t have enough money to help with the bills we’re struggling.

The actual vote was called by Reid, Monday 02, @ 500.
This is so he hopes (HOPES) it will clear/pass by TUES midnight.
Then it goes back to the house and then the President.
This has been prolonged due to the fact there were 12 amendments added to this, the house may have taken a month or more to go over each and every one of them or strike the whole bill and start over.
Reid had to call a cloture motion in order to get it cleaned up, they have it now down to 2 amendments, (home buyer/owner tax credit and an employer tax credit)

Everyone qualifies for this extension, IE its an Emergency Unemployment Extension.

It even covers all 50 states now for 14 weeks at least.
There are links to all this information here @ 4pillars under the stimulus link toward the TOP of this page.
(Unemployment benefits extended in 2009 stimulus package)