Sentences with phrase «of jobless benefits»

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The first allows those claiming Employment Insurance to earn extra income on top of their benefits, and the other inflates benefits for claimants in regions with high jobless rates.

While other data on Thursday showed a modest increase in new applications for jobless benefits last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to tightening labor market conditions.

They include value - added tax hikes, lower jobless benefits, wage cuts for state employees and billions of euros in savings from local government reforms.

There are two categories of jobless claims — initial, which comprises people filing for the first time, and continuing, which consists of unemployed people who have been receiving unemployment benefits for a while.

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Jobless Claims is the number of people who are filing or have filed to receive unemployment insurance benefits, as reported weekly by the U.S. Department of Labor.

While this debate has provided fodder for policy wonks, it has not had much influence on Capitol Hill which seems poised to allow federal unemployment benefits to lapse without much of an alternative strategy for getting the long term jobless working again.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

That issue has taken on heightened importance since it became clear in recent days that the $ 1.7 billion worth of federal Medicaid funding included in both the NYC and state budgets was not included by Congressional Democrats in a bill to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans.

Tens of thousands of people cheat the state out of an estimated $ 150 million every year through unemployment insurance fraud, including prison inmates, people who were on overseas vacations when they applied for benefits and people who had «off the books» jobs but claimed to be jobless.

In fact, there is a significant proportion of disability benefit claimants who should be on unemployment benefit, and therefore the figure of the jobless is substantially higher if not for the shunting of these people onto the sickness register mainly because of the higher levels of benefit.

Its story carries the headline: 9 in 10 jobless will bear the brunt of benefits freeze.

They expired last week when lawmakers failed to continue a 2008 recession - era federal law providing nearly a year of benefits, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, that kicked in when state jobless benefits ran out.

A quick Google search on Labour and Ed Miliband policies produced these results: - On Welfare - • Ed Miliband sets out plans to cut benefits for young jobless • Ed Miliband to promise Labour cap on welfare spending • Miliband admits public anger at «something for nothing culture» • Labour leader pledges to match Tory plan to cut welfare bill On Immigration - • Ed Miliband's nod to Ukip: We understand people's fears on immigration • Ed Miliband: it's not prejudiced to be concerned about immigration • Labour leader tries to reach out to Ukip voters • LABOUR leader Ed Miliband pledged to tackle the issue of immigration

It could see you through a period of unemployment of about six months if you would have access to jobless benefits or severance.

On Thursday, the Labor Department said new applications for U.S. jobless benefits increased more than anticipated, but the number of Americans on unemployment fell to its lowest level since 1973.

Jobless claims rise by largest amount in 3 months By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-- The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three months.

was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

And when the U.K.'s latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

Although the probable expiration of emergency jobless benefits at the start of the year will likely push the unemployment rate down through a further reduction in the participation rate, the Federal Reserve has signaled that the unemployment rate is likely to fall below the 6.5 % threshold it has identified.

Instead of paying taxes, newly jobless workers will collect unemployment and welfare benefits from shrinking government coffers.

The $ 14,000 deduction was the equivalent of one - half of the unemployment benefits the instructor had received while he was jobless.

Senate (finally) extends unemployment 14 - 20 weeks by Rich DeMatteo on November 5, 2009 In unison, millions of unemployed Americans let out a huge sigh of relief yesterday as Senate extended jobless benefits 14 - 20 weeks.

He cited improvements in consumer spending and a drop in jobless benefit claims as signs of recovery.