Recent Posts Tagged With 'new york'

• What\'s the Maximum Weekly Unemployment Benefit?

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 12:48 in texas, ohio, new york, michigan, Florida, California, north carolina, new jersey, oregon, minnesota, wisconsin, nevada

  If you're recently unemployed, you may be wondering what the maximum weekly amount of money that you may be getting from the government. Fortunately, MSN Money published a comparison of how much your UI benefits could be... Note: The amount you g...

• Unemployment Medical Insurance

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 21:26 in Health Insurance, new york, New York City, medical insurance, cobra, unemployment insurance

  If you're recently unemployed, you need to figure out what to do concerning your families health insurance---Odds are pretty good that your employer will take you off their health plan real quick. So you may be asking yourself, "How can unemployed w...

• Disappearing Jobs

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 09:23 in new york, jobs, Florida, California, new jersey, unemployment rate

  A hat tip to the the Great Depression of 2006 blog for posting a link to this video graphic that shows the US unemployment by county for the trailing 12 month average from 2007 to the present.Latoya Egwuekwe is the creator of the multimedia graphic t...

• 15 States have borrowed Federal Funds to pay UI benefits

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 06:59 in ohio, new york, michigan, South Carolina, California, kentucky, north carolina, new jersey, wisconsin, unemployment fund

  Click for a Larger ImageAccording to Data from May, 2009---14 states have borrowings from the federal government for funding of their depleted unemployment insurance funds---and in the coming months several more states will be added to the list.Michi...

• New York Governor Paterson Approves an Additional 13 Weeks of Tier 3 Unemployment Benefits

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 10:33 in new york, unemployment rate, unemployment insurance, unemployment benefit

  With the backdrop of an increasing rate of unemployment in the Empire State, Governor Paterson today signed legislation that gives jobless New Yorkers an additional 13 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.In April, 2009---7.8% of New Yorkers were...

• 13 States won't get Tier 3 unemployment benefits

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 08:00 in Tennessee, ohio, Alabama, new york, georgia, Florida, California, missouri, arizona, maine, Illinois, unemployment benefit

  According to the San Francisco Gate there are some states that have laws on the books that prevent them from being able to give the jobless an additional 20 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits that were included in the Obama stimulus package.Acc...

• New Yorkers to Receive $25/week more in unemployment insurance payments

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 17:27 in new york, New York City, unemployment insurance, unemployment benefit

  According to fox23news.com New York's Jobless who are receiving unemployment insurance payments can expect to receive an additional $25/week courtesy of the Obama Stimulus Plan.State labor officials expect the federal stimulus package to provide more...

• Unemployment rate rises throughout the US

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 14:50 in new york, Indiana, michigan, north carolina, arizona, Illinois, rhode island, unemployment rate

  A reader recently sent me this article that was posted on careerbuilder that gives some pretty interesting statistics on the current unemployment situation in the United States.The latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics* showed six states...

• 7 States have borrowed money from the Feds to pay unemployment insurance benefits

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 17:32 in ohio, new york, Indiana, michigan, South Carolina, California, kentucky, unemployment rate, unemployment insurance, unemployment fund

  Click for a larger imageAccording to the Department of Labor there are 7 states which currently have run out of money in their unemployment funds and have been forced to borrow money from the feds in order to keep the unemployment insurance checks fl...

• New York State adds $2 Billion to its unemployment insurance budget

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 08:12 in new york, Massachusetts, new jersey, connecticut

  According to the New York Times the state of New York as increased its budget for paying out unemployment insurance claims by $2 Billion... Now the Budget is $5 Billion/year vs $3 Billion/year.This is because there is now 420,000+ New Yorkers colle...