Senators pulled a fast one in April on Unemployment Extension
For anyone who thinks the Senate came to the rescue of unemployed Americans, especially the long-term, guess again. In April there was a lot of attention paid to them extending unemployment benefits. However, they did NOT extend benefits by creating a new tier (Tier V), but only extended the filing deadline for already existing tiers to May 20. What this means is anyone who exhausts either their state benefits or one of the tiers before May 2o, may get another extension. However, unless the deadline for that extension is extension, once that tier is exhausted, it is OVER.
Never mind my feelings about how the Senate doesn’t blink an eye to save Wall Street or Corporations (don’t get me started). I am urging anyone who is interested in supporting the backbone of our country — people — to contact their Senators and Congressional Representative to urge them to do something about this. At the very least, the filing extension deadline should be extended into fall. What would really be helpful would be to do that and add a 20week tier, so we can get through this year.