Congress also agreed to extend unemployment compensation and continue higher payments to Medicare providers.
If they did not have extended unemployment compensation, some unemployed workers would find and accept new jobs.
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They slashed state unemployment benefits and rejected federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170, 000 laid-off workers.
Rep. FRANK: And as I said - you also talk about unemployment compensation, you're talking about food stamps.
Much of it will be tax relief, but some of it will be, for example, increased unemployment compensation.
More than 18 million Americans have received unemployment compensation benefits and increased benefits.
And he said that she is something who -- we need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for people like Leslie.
The number of tax returns reporting taxable unemployment compensation declined 12%, while the amount of taxable unemployment benefits reported fell 23%.
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But do you sit and wallow in what could have been and complain that unemployment compensation is not enough to survive on?
We want to add some additional unemployment compensation, money for food stamps and other money for (unintelligible) that we'll spend in a hurry.
The reason why the contest came to media attention is that Q-C Mart challenged her claim for unemployment compensation since she had voluntarily quit.
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You know, on the jobs front, we've got to replenish the unemployment compensation system, and so far that has not been part of the agreement.
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Unemployment compensation also is taxable, and there is no automatic withholding.
Some of you also joined Democrats in supporting a Credit Card Bill of Rights and in extending unemployment compensation to Americans who are out of work.
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For their sake, Congress must not allow what remains of federal unemployment insurance, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, to expire at the end of the year.
With government employee pensions skyrocketing, high unemployment compensation debt and an increasing amount of taxpaying businesses fleeing the state, California is learning a hard lesson in fiscal responsibility.
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Unemployment compensation keeps workers from discounting their own labor.
Here are the facts about so-called mandatory entitlement spending in the U.S.: Out of a typical year's federal budget about half goes to transfer payments of various sorts--Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment compensation, disability programs, etc.
When someone who has been out of work gets a job with health insurance benefits, they no longer need unemployment compensation and food stamps, and they no longer need to use the emergency room as their primary care facility.
Some of it is in the form of loans, SBA long term low interest loans but there are also direct grants that you do not have to repay if you qualify, unemployment compensation, rents as you try to find a new place to live.
Look, the finance committee has worked -- is working in a bipartisan way on a series of measures to create an environment where hiring can take place, as well as to extend things like unemployment compensation and health care for people that have lost their job.
The plan the president proposed in October would extend by 13 weeks unemployment compensation in states hit hardest by terrorism, help states offer Medicaid to uninsured workers and their families, and offer emergency grants to help displaced workers with job training, find work and continue their health insurance.
We're going to have to deal with issues around unemployment insurance and compensation as well.
In a NY Times op-ed published after his blog post, Cronon recounted the history of Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin who were instrumental in developing Social Security, workers compensation, unemployment insurance and public employee bargaining.
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We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes.
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Wall Street recently handed out its largest total compensation in history, yet unemployment is still sky high.
Data from the report suggest low rise in pay among directors in the Top 200 indicates to us a reluctance to increase compensation at these companies while unemployment remains high.
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Banks in Britain gave up their legal challenge to claims they had mis-sold payment-protection insurance (covering sickness and unemployment) on credit cards and mortgages, and agreed to pay compensation to customers.
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