Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment insurance.
“The benefits haven’t run out yet,” Kyl said. “We’re going to pass this before the benefits run out.”
It’s tough to decipher exactly what he means. Roughly 400,000 folks exhausted their federal unemployment benefits in September, with another 200,000 projected to do the same by the end of October, according to a recent study by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. By the end of the year, NELP estimates that 1.3 million Americans will have exhausted their benefits unless Congress steps in with an extension. Each day the Senate dallies, another 7,000 people go off the rolls.
Uh, the benefits HAVE run out for hundreds of thousands of people already. Others, like yours truly, are on state extended benefits, and they are a royal bitch because one has to MAIL the claim in. It takes TEN days to get the money, unlike two days with the federal, since one files online for it.
However, the Senate has moved just a little bit closer to making the EUI reality.
Of course in five months Congress will have to extend UI again.
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