By Ian McKendry
WASHINGTON (MNI) – Extended benefits for the state of New York were
triggered in the September 9 week, about a month and a half after Idaho,
the last state to be on extended benefits went off the program.
A Labor Dept. analyst told MNI that at the beginning of the year
states started to exit the extended benefits program with precipitous
declines in that category in March, April and May. The extended benefits
program is one in which an unemployed person can receive benefits if
their state has an unemployment rate above 8% and is more than 110% of
that states unemployment rate in one of the three previous years.
The extended benefits program pays claims after a person has
exhausted their initial claims and the four tiers of Emergency
Unemployment Claims. The Labor analyst said extended benefits in New
York will be available up to 20 weeks and the state will likely be
paying them through the end of the year.
The Labor analyst said that NY triggered the program in the
September 9 week and not the September 8 week because unlike most
states, their week starts on a Monday and ends on Sunday.
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