I don't know how many of our fellow crushers are living on unemployments benefits (maybe no one),
but I have been relying on those benefits since September of 2008 and I thank God that there has been
federal extened benefits. Here is a link that explains how all four of the federal extened benefits work.
One case in point is that unless Congress extends the Stimulus Package eligibility date from December 29, 2009,
to December 29, 2010, hundreds of thousands people will lose their federal extended benefits come the first of January.
https://unemployedworkers.org/sites/unemployedworkers/index.php/resources/resource_entry/extended_benefits
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