Extended Benefits cut off [View All]

The unemployment rate is 9.3%, but the Extended Benefit program got cut off this week.

The statement on the AZDES web site:

"The Arizona unemployment rate has dropped to the extent that under state law (A.R.S. § 23-630.A.3(b)) the Extended Benefit (EB) Program will end with the week ending June 11, 2011. No EB weekly payments can be made for any weeks ending after that date, even if you have an EB balance remaining."

By comparison, in 2007 the AZ unemployment rate was 3.6%. Thanks for the new normal, Republicans.


As much as this is going to hurt people, I couldn't find much in the news about this besides this letter to the editor, which points out that the Unemployment EB program is free money from the federal government that the state legislature is intentionally rejecting. Because making innocent people suffer is what they do best.

http://www.azdailysun.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_b97d72c9-1881-52d8-add2-796fe94fd513.html