If you are reading this, you are likely one of the millions of Americans who are seeking good information on the important Tier 5 situation. Below, we provide an update on previous proposals, as well as a recent proposal.
- Is a Tier 5 unemployment extension still on the table?
- Is Congress paying attention to the 99ers?
- What are the current Tier 5 proposals?
Quick Background
If implemented, a Tier 5 would add additional weeks of unemployment benefits. To date, the previous extensions passed by Congress (including the December 2010 extension) have only extended eligibility for existing tiers, enabling you to receive up to a maximum of 99 weeks in most states. These extensions have helped millions, but have not provided any additional weeks for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have already exhausted their benefits.
Previous Proposals
Americans Want to Work Act
Introduced by Senator Stabenow of Michigan, this bill would provide the following:
- An additional 20 weeks of benefits for people who have had their benefits expire, as long as the unemployment rate in your state is at least 7.5%.
- It would offer businesses a $2,000 tax break for hiring workers who have exhausted unemployment benefits.
As proposed, the bill would offer eligiblity retroactively, meaning that if you have already finished your previous tiers in recent months, you would still be eligibile.
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act
Introduced by Representative Berkley of Nevada, this is similar, but would apply to fewer states.
- Would provides an additional 20 weeks of benefits for people who have had their benefits expire, as long as the unemployment rate in your state is at least 10%.
Only a handful of states would meet the 10% unemployment rate threshold.
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NEW Proposal
Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) have been working on a new bill that would help the 99ers. The proposal contains the following provisions:
- Provides 14 additional weeks of emergency unemployment compensation in Tier 1.
- These additional weeks will be available for those who have exhausted all their benefits (99ers and other exhaustees) as well as those who will be unemployed this year.
- This extension would be similar to the November 2009 extension, which provided additional weeks of benefits to Tier 2.
- Adding these extra weeks in Tier 1 makes them available for all long-term unemployed and not only those who live in a “high unemployment state.”
The latest that we have heard is that further discussions are likely to take place in early March.
Your Thoughts?
- What do you think about Tier 5?
- How many weeks should be added?
- Can Congress reach a solution?
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In addition, as the debate over Tier 5 has ensued, certain individuals have taken to impersonating others and / or posting under a false identity. In response, we have chosen to block these false comments.
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I was stupid, I shouldn’t have waited so long to get a job.
You’re suffering from a depression….don’t blame yourself, it’s not your fault.
waiting is what 99ers are good at.
99ers are considered a waste product by the Obama administration. Cow pies on the road of life.
GOOD NEWS**************************
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Will Continue
03/01/2012
Temporary Extension through February Passed by Congress and Signed by President Obama
Unemployment insurance benefits will continue. Congress passed, and the President signed into law, legislation that temporarily extends the benefits through the end of June. The action was part of the two-month renewal of the payroll tax cut.
The decision means that individuals who have collected unemployment insurance benefits from Illinois for fewer than 113 weeks will continue to do so. The decision adds additional weeks to programs.
Under current law, the number of weeks of unemployment benefits available to an Illinois claimant will generally range from a minimum of 25 to a maximum of 113; however, not everyone will be entitled to the maximum number of weeks. The number of payable weeks of emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) and extended benefits (EB) depends on whether an individual meets the EB and EUC eligibility criteria, when an individual’s claim was initially filed and the federal phase out rules.
The maximum 113 weeks of benefits include
26 weeks of regular state benefits,
53 weeks of EUC, in four separate tiers of 20, 14, 13 and 6 weeks,
20 weeks of EB.
14 weeks of EB.
The legislation has established the following cutoff dates for the EUC and EB programs;
EUC – Must have exhausted regular benefits by 02/25/2012 to be placed on EUC.
EUC – Must have exhausted an EUC tier by 01/01/2012 to move to the next tier of EUC benefits.
EB will terminate in Illinois 06/06/12. No payments on EB will be made for weeks ending after this date.
Also, for new claims filed after January 2013, regular state benefits lasts 25 weeks, not 26.
This information is based on the Illinois Department of Employment Security’s interpretation of the law. Official confirmation is pending from the U.S. Department of Labor. Check here for further updates.
This site can NEVER keep people like me quiet. People like me are the vast MAJORITY!!!! 99ers are people destined to lose no matter what the economic climate
Why is it that you are the only one who is writing in then 99isenough. You have to make up names because you are the only one complaining, scared your welfare will get shut down if everyone has no job.
Honda commercial says that it’s great time to be an American, but in actuality, it’s NOT SO GREAT neither to be a Greek nor an American American. Nobody believes Honda except the rich one percent in America nowadays.
I feel a lot of love in here, don’t you!
you 99 do not know what love is you never had any
I feel pity for you, 99isenough for you have hard time feeling the pain that 99ers are going through.l..I think that you had a bad childhood to be a person like that. I bet that you never had a decent friend or parents.
Whine all you want, there is NO tier 5 and there never will be. Happy times!!!!
99isenough u r a moron. I sent over 300 resumes after i graduated from social work school. I went to 20 different interviews still no job. We r not freeloaders. we are honest citizens that want jobs. But u r a moron.
I bed to differ.
Honest citizens do not sit around for 2 years milking the system dry and then have the nerve to ask for even more money.
You make me want to vomit.
Go get a job like everyone else you bums.
Isn’t it banks and big business that milked the system dry as well as people like you 99isenough or jerry collecting welfare all your life. We all were just humble people working everyday and paying taxes, unlike you 99. Most of us have always worked until big business and our own government sent jobs away and left us without any.
Of course 99 you would not know anything about working, you have never had a job jerry just welfare.
right “you bed to differ” that is the issue with the U.S. they hire under educated idiots like you who cant spell or keep a small thought in their heads. And allow people like you to gloat about their 8 dollar an hour job while demeaning the rest of the unemployed with their uneducated quips. 99 is a horses ass
How is that waiting, hoping and praying for a tier 5 working for you 99ers today?
I have been unemployed for nearly two years now. I have run out of benefits. Like most Americans in my situation, I would love to have work. I am unable to relocate for work. The court systems in this country have made that impossible. They do not give justice to a man with children. So I am stuck in a down economy in an area with over 14% unemployment rate. 700 applicants or more per position available. So you say I want this? You say I choose to not have a job? Well my friend, I hope the day I turn to a life of crime, due to people like you, you are one of my victims. Feel the rage of those walked on. We want to be productive members of society, and are being held back by the fatcats. Our own government isn’t doing a damn thing about it either.
Two years is plenty of time to find a job.
I am sick of hearing you 99ers whine and cry all the time.
If you were to put that energy into finding a job, you would working now.
Their will never be a tier 5, so you better hit the street running.
You are so sick thaty you are on here 24 hours a day 7 days a week, for a year, sounds more like obsessed and desperate for attention 99- jerry
Most Americans don’t stay unemployed for two years. Stop blaming this country for your problems, it’s un-American.
Most American had jobs and others were available at least until Bush took office. I agree Bush and you welfare loafers 99 milking the system is unamerican 99-jerry-king-daddy
To all that have been on unemployment for months/years.. I wish you all the luck. It’s brutal out there. I live in the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country. We are also #1 in home foreclosure, bankruptcy and auto repos. No, I don’t mean Detroit, I’m talking about Las Vegas, which was once the fastest growing city in the country and we had the lowest unemployment rate. This recession has hit my city HARD. There are simply not enough jobs out there, for all the unemployed. My Walmart greeter has 2 college degrees and took what ever job he could find. McDonalds was hiring 600 employees for extended hours and new locations opening. More than 7,000 people applied. We have 6,000 homeless families here. Kids living on the street! It’s a disgrace to this once great city. 78% of kids in public schools are on free lunch. For you ignorant people who think people are just lazy and want to live off the system, I suggest you kill yourself. You actually think people want to live this way? Everyone here is desperate for work and look for work on a regular basis. I am blessed to have kept my job through this recession, I know MANY who struggle and have lost everything. Not saying that a tier 5 is going to fix the problems, but any help for these families is better than what they are experiencing now. I love these arrogant asses insulting these people. I hope one day you lose everything, and your kids have to go to bed hungry.Maybe, then you will realize the reality of this recession. You are lousy human beings and horrible Americans.
Sounds like you need to move then. This is the land of opportunity, so make the best of it.
Is someone forcing you to stay in Vegas? You are responsible for your family Lisa, not the government.
Maybe its time to stop making babies and gambling.
There will be no more extensions, 99 weeks was plenty.
What did you do for 99 weeks Lisa?
I guess you have a hard time reading. I stated I did NOT lose my job, during this recession, but with the highest unemployment rate in the country, I know MANY who have. Have lost a few neighbors due to foreclosure. You are a moron if you think all we do here is “make babies and gamble”. People who have lost their jobs and homes, can’t afford to relocate. Takes a lot of money for a family to relocate out of state. If they can’t pay their rent/mortgage, how can they afford to move? This was once the land of opportunity. Those days are long gone. Your ignorance is overwhelming and kind of disturbing. I, myself am tired of watching my fellow man suffer. The Walmart greeter, I mentioned, had no other choice but to work for Walmart, because there are no other jobs. You actually think someone who spent 5 years in college and spent thousands doing so, just chose to work for minimum wage? There is something seriously wrong with you.
Sounds like your ‘Walmart greeter’ isn’t very smart even with their ‘degrees’.
Who do you think paid for your unemployment when you were on it . DAAAAA
Cindy, you are the worst kind of 99er. You are hoping your vacation will continue, BUT THERE WILL BE NO MORE EXTENSIONS.
Cindy, i’ve never been on unemployment
All of you who think you are so much better . There is a saying You die like you live. One day I hope not you may be in another person shoes you know the one you dog out . What goes around comes around right back at you. I do not care about trash mouth people who do not care about anyone but them selves. I hope you have a better outlook tomorrow or not!!
Anytime Graham! I’m glad I could help.
You 99ers are all the same, blood sucking parasites bleeding the system dry.
I am loving it that you morons did not take my advice. Now you have nothing. Better get a job you bums!
What advice to u give jerk off?? U just whine and bitc* in here.
You are upset because I tell it like it is.
There will be NO MORE EXTENSIONS for you bums!
Two years is plenty of time to find a job.
Get off your lazy butts and go find a job, any job.
The buck stops here people.
You are the bum . Where I live people will start to be dead on the road. Instead of picking up dead animals they would be picking up people . Do not judge others and you won;t be Judged . Thank You God for all of our answered prayer’s. God Bless the United States of America !!! God Bless our President of our United States of America. God forgive those who do not know what they are talking about. AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t see tier 5 ever happening. It’s for the best.
You are correct, the unemployment extension for 99ers is not needed.
If the longer that someone is unemployed, the harder it is for them to find a job, how is extending unemployment going to help them get a job???
Thank you Go Daddy
Not happening…
Just where do 99ers get off even THINKING taxpayers should pay their bills for more than two years? 99ers sure seem to be an ungrateful lot, don’t you think?
Where do you get off 99isenough thinking taxpayers should have us pay your bills all your worthless life
Tax payers don’t pay my bills. My trust fund does.
Unlike you, I am wealthy and sit at home all day and laugh at you pathetic human beings.
After 2 years, you deserve to lose your house.
I thought you were a mechanic 99isenough
Anon 99isenough changes his story everytime he is on here, one thing for sure he is a mental basket case
Anon,
You can work and STILL have a trust fund.
Hows that tier 5 coming along?
Better get job hunting.
99 you just said you are wealthy and sit home all day now you imply as you have said for a long time you are a car mechanic, so which is it.
I think I saw you at Walmart as a greeter and you got fired and were unable to collect isn’t that what all wealthy people do. Live at their dead mothers house on welfare. That is what you do Jerry, too fat to move
hi 99isenough, or “matt” today no murder stories to make fun of? How’s that life on welfare working for you? Still lonely hoping to have someone to write to, as usual.
Stu good to see your still around, 3 months now at my new job after almost 4 years, and they are still hiring, must mean something is getting better. I got a $3.00 raise Stu, a month ago and we are working 50 to 55 hours a week. I hope the economy is getting better, good luck to the rest of you 99ers, stay strong.
Your days of living off the system IS OVER.
99 weeks is your limit.
Good to hear that. yes I have been on my job now for 6 weeks and going good. Lets keep it that way..
There will never be a tier 5, get over yourselves.
you made a bet with your 401k and lost. Give give give!!! Typical 99er response.
Howdy once again….
I am signed up with the local unemployment office, as well as several temp agancies, but I do not have a car. So, I am out of unemployment and do not have transportation here in Franklin Indiana, just like a lot of others. cjohnston4105890@yahoo.com I am willing to do what ever job anyone has.
Matt, I think you ought to check yourself.
A lot of people are trying to provide for their family.
I see a lot of hate in the replies. We all have problems and if we could work together maybe things could get better. I am not a pollyanna type person…. I don’t think that there is a rainbow hiding behind every tree…. But come on folks I see comments about others being cry babies…. Think about it if you are 2 grand in the hole to your landlord would you like a chance to ask the government for some help….. I have tried… And I have run into a recording. I am charles Johnston Franklin Indiana and I just want a chance to prove that I am a hard worker.
Chuck ALL those replies are from one person, under the many names he uses, it is 99isenough. Only ONE person and he has done this for around 2 years.
any job. mickey donalds is a job and you get free cheeseburgers at lunch!
You are good at laying around, living off the system like a leech.
Howdy,
I do know that there are a lot of us out there looking for work. We are trying to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. I live in Indiana and in October of 2011 the minds in Indpls had decided to take away Tier 4 and put us all on the EB then they changed their minds and now we are not elegible for the 2 month extensions or the most recent extension that passed on 2/17/12… I am not going to say any bad words – but about 2 grand in the hole to my landlord and I can not find a job because in 1993 I broke a window and was charged with a burglary of a business…. Yes I did do the crime and I did my time. But how can anyone survive when the first question is ” Have you been convicted….” I have not been in any trouble since 1993… And I live in Franklin Indiana.
99isenough (JERRY) “putts” have you changed you’r name to matt.
Every one knows who you are by you’r dumb statements. To be like you
you can’t have any frinds thats why you are here PUTTS.
How’s that tier 5 working out for you 99crybabies today
2 years of free money is more than enough help
Then, give me back my 401K that has been lost with the economy collapse.
99isenough or matt or the king etc. has lived on free money (welfare and false SSI) ALL his life of 47 years, what a moron
LOL….obviously 99isenough has changed his name to matt….again, you unbelieveable moron.
How’s that tier 5 thing doing for you 99ers?