Congressman Carnahan Takes Action to Extend Unemployment Benefits
By Cara | September 28, 2009
via St. Louis News Today – “All The News That Is Saint Louis”.
Congressman Russ Carnahan (MO-3) has taken action to extend unemployment benefits up to 13 weeks to 4,091 Missourians, whose unemployment assistance is scheduled to end by the end of this month.
“This extension will assist workers in providing for their families – helping to pay for groceries, filling their cars with gas and making their mortgage payments on time,” said Congressman Carnahan.
The bipartisan Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 will immediately benefit an estimated 314,080 workers nationwide projected to exhaust all available unemployment benefits by the end of September. The legislation extends the total amount of potential Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits to 46 weeks.
In addition to those 314,080 workers with exhausted benefits at the end of this month an estimated 1,080,614 Americans will have exhausted EUC benefits by the end of December. With this legislation an estimated 20,556 Missourians currently expected to have exhausted benefits by the end of December will also be given this 13 week extension.
“Extending these benefits is one of the most cost-effective and fast-acting ways to stimulate the economy and support families in these tough economic times,” said Carnahan.
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