Establish eligibility in all states and elsewhere for Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV

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Establish eligibility in all states and elsewhere for Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV

I am on unemployment now so is my daughter,and my brother we need the extensions to continue immediately other services like foodstamps will be overwhelmed we pay taxes on the unemployment so it makes no sense for me to cut them, plus I have been paying into the unemployment. Do you support the unemployment extension?

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Please extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Mine will expire very soon and I do not know how I will support my family after that. The "Jobless Recovery" will stop dead in it's tracks when a coupe hundred thousand people in Florida can't buy food and pay the rent.
I am on unemployment in Florida but do to the lose of my job I had to relocate to Rhode island.I have revived my first 26 weeks and was cut off on uly 10 ,as I was just starting to recover a little.I am also trying to go back to school and my job search go's on.bills don't stop coming in and I have no way to pay these bills to live.Now um wating for a letter in the mail to tell me if I'm eligible for ed or euc ,I guess. I call Florida unemployment office and it seems they can never give me any answers ,just wait for a letter in the mail....but the only letters I get is bills. they can't even tell me if I'm eligible or not. I don't understand don't I pay in to this. Did the people before me work any harder. Then why do these laws and eligiblity dates keep changing. I have never had this hard of time finding a job in my life. I need help
I am currently 57 years old and have worked for 32 years. Due to Hurricane Katrina, employment has been sporadic at best. I did work in NJ for 1 1/2 yrs and was then laid off. That was on May 7, 2009. I have applied for over 150 different jobs and have had interviews but no job offers. My husband, who was injured on the job, was subsequently laid off. Having worked for a non-profit agency who was not required to pay into the unemployment benefits program, he does not qualify for unemployment. He has not worked since October 1, 2009. The only source of our income has been my unemployment compensation and I am about to exhaust Tier 3 benefits thru the state of NJ. As many US citizens, I am about to have no income at all due to your decision to discontinue extended benefits. What are you thinking? Do you not realize that people of my age will not be eligible for public assistance? How do you decide that it is okay for millions of US citizens to live out on the streets with no source of income? With the current level of unemployment in this country, why do you think it is okay to simply cut off my and millions of others' only means to have housing, food and the ability to pay for simple household expenses. Has anyone considered that the rising crime rate can be directly attributed to people losing their unemployment benefits? Do none of you realize that public assistance benefits will also dramatically rise? Are any of you who have decided to stop the funding process considering your ability to be re-elected? I'd rather be spending my active days making sure you are NOT re-elected. How would you feel if you were unable to obtain employment, especially if you are an older citizen in this country? You are effectively eliminating the middle class! Congratulations, well done!!!
I wonder what you would do in order to pay your bills and feed your kids when you are at wits end trying to find employment. But I guess this wouldn't happen to you - so you don't care. PLEASE CARE!
I have applied for over 50 jobs since I was laid off. The typical response (if any )from a prospective employer is "we had 5000 applications for 50 jobs. Is this a recession or a depression ?