Washington abandoned millions of long term unemployed by failing to include any help in their “so called” unemployment extension in HR 4213 even though the Senate sold this in the media as “extending vital emergency benefits through the end of this year”. Truth is they lied. ENOUGH of the little 6 week extensions for only a few states. The economy will not be fixed in 6 weeks. The long term unemployed in all 50 states need Congress to extend the weekly benefits through the end of 2010 and hopefully do it before their Spring Vacation. We cannot wait.
(here’s an update from the unemployment website)
Important Dates for Unemployment Compensation Beneficiaries
Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC)
- November 20, 2010 – Under current federal law, customers receiving regular state unemployment benefits must exhaust those benefits by the week ending November 20, 2010 to be eligible for additional federal EUC benefits.
- November 27, 2010 – Under current federal law, customers already receiving federal EUC benefits may be eligible for the next tier (EUC Tiers II, III, or IV) provided their previous tier is exhausted by the week ending November 27, 2010.
- November 28, 2010 – Under current federal law, whichever tier EUC customers are in as of November 28, 2010 will be the final tier for which they will qualify. While EUC customers will be allowed to complete their current tier, they will not be able to advance to the next tier.
- April 30, 2011 – Under current federal law, EUC benefits will not be paid after the week ending April 30, 2011.
- At this time, no additional EUC benefits have been enacted by Congress. Only the federal government can extend the EUC program.
- The Agency for Workforce Innovation will notify customers by mail when they receive their final EUC payments.
Extended Benefits (EB)
- November 27, 2010 – Under current law, customers who exhaust all entitlement to regular state benefits and EUC by the week ending November 27, 2010 can establish eligibility for EB.
- December 4, 2010 – Due to federal funding limitations, Extended Benefits (EB) will no longer be paid after the week ending December 4, 2010. Amounts remaining on customers’ EB accounts beyond the week ending December 4 will no longer be payable.
- The Agency for Workforce Innovation will notify customers by mail when they receive their final EB payments.
Federal Additional Compensation (FAC)
- December 11, 2010 – Under current federal law, FAC (the additional $25 weekly benefits) will not be paid after the week ending December 11, 2010.
- The Agency for Workforce Innovation will notify customers by mail when they receive their final FAC payments.
Updated November 8, 2010
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Harry Reid would find this a good thing right?
I like to see them lose all their money and benefits until they fix the problem. Let them find out in the middle of the month that there is no money for them since the 1st of the month to pay their bills. They wouldnt have went 1 day. It only takes one month to be in the red. We have 2 weeks left.
Not to them. They had plenty of money to start with. They got plenty more while in office. So why would they care. They’ve gong forgotten about “human decency”
sign a petition
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/the_99ers_need_a_tier_v_added_to_unemployment_benefits
why dosent some budy plan a march at the white house
I’d march on Washington, hell yes! But no money to get there!!!!!
All of would march on Washington if we could, but I would rather be able to pay my bills then spend the money to get there.
already missed one mortgage payment, working on missing another. Now maybe those idiots at Chase Bank will be happy as they wrote and said they can not modify my mortgage cause Iwas not two months behind. No Tier 5,, see ya incumbents in November elections, arse holes
all i know is i lost my job 2 years ago due to tho economy. havent been able to find work in wa.state even close to surviving in a home with all the bills. out here all the shelters are way over full, no work to really be found. and they tell us its getting better. unempl- rate isnt going down lake last time we are not recieving benifits any more.
I have been lookiing and looking for a job, I am 41 years old i don’t have but two more checks and all my tiers will be gone. I been working all my life and love to work but the jobs are gone. What am I going to do too support my family. Is their anybody in Congress working on a 5 Tier or what can we do to get it done.
i AM 51 AND i HAVE BEEN TOLD i ALREADY RECIEVED TEIR 5 DON’T GET IT, MANY OTHERS ARE SAYING THEY HAVE BEEN ON UNEMPLYMENT FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS, DOSEN’T EVERYONE GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF WEEKS IN EACH TIER, PLEASE DOES ANYONE HAVE THE ANSWER?????
No one truly understands until they experience the real trauma of being unemployed. Not being considered for employment because of age(they claim that is not a factor). I beg to differ having experienced it first hand. Being too qualified can also throw a wet blanket on the(desire to be hired).I would think a Tier V is inevitable considering the economic climate.
We need a Tier 5 for all of us who now will have nothing. I am 63, cannot find a job, and hope a Tier 5 will be created immediatelty. I also have no medical insurance. I agree with Carol- no one truly understands what it is like to be unemployed and be 63 years old unless they have been though it, and our elected officials certainly have not. Help!!
yes we can fix everyones roof around the world but we cann’t fix our own roof.if your neighbors roof was leaking and your roof was leaking whos roof would you fix first?
I agree we need Tier 5 to bridge us over until manufacturing and service jobs return
to the good ole USA. Buy American and bring back our jobs.
Well, I exhausted my benefits, and now my house is in foreclosure. I tried, and made it a long time, but no more. I had my house 11 years, and now someone else will have it. The government will only help the ones who don’t try, and the ones who lie on the food stamp aps. Half of them sell the stamps anyway. They made that easier when they put it on a card!!!
I agree Kim…I am in the same boat. I’ve been unemployed for 13 months, have my Master’s Degree but no jobs! Losing my house after living here for 12 years! I can’t get approved for Food Stamps because between my husband’s GROSS income and my child support we are $98 over…however, my husband’s ex wife gets most of his check for child support. They don’t care…they go by GROSS income…so in the meantime…my family is having to go without, go to food pantries, etc..because we can’t get food stamps and his ex wife is living high on the hog! Messed up system!!
you shouldnt of had kids from a man that already has some..dum ass”"
u know a littel to much about the welfare system,i think u get stamps and sell them “b…h”"
I remember the “Buy American” advertising compaigns the automakers put out about 10 years ago. As soon as eastern Europe opened up to free trade, they dumped the American Workers like a bad habit and hauled manufacturing straight to Europe. They never looked back. And, when the whole thing fell apart, they came screaming back to Congress and asked for our hard earned tax dollars to bail themselves out. I will buy from any company foreign or national who employs American workers and the rest can take a long walk, off a short pier. To Heck with the World Bank, The New World Order, and the Politicians who endorse them. If a politician wants to handout Millions and Billions of dollars to foreign countries, maybe they should immigrate to those countries and hold public office there, or better yet use their own money to fund their belief system. We don’t need them here. Thank you for letting me vent. The American people need their country back…!
why oh why they cant pass the tier 5 i have 2 kids and a single mom helppppppp
im living in a garage with my 2 daughtors and grand child
I lost my house.
stop lieying!!
try learning to spell moron
I pray they don’t waste another day trying to figure out the “politics” of passing this desperatley needed tier 5 bill. I am starting on 4 weeks with no check, and will have to let my car go back to the bank, on June 25th, after paying faithfully for 5 years on it! I am not eligible for food stamps or assistance, I have no children. I am filling fabric softner bottles with half water to stretch them, reusing baggies, went to the local food pantry, ironically it is called the “Jesus loves you” pantry. Evidently, the folks that run it think “Jesus loves you” only if you can produce an electric bill with your name on it, which I cannot. God help us, after years and years of paying in to a system that truly does not care. I too am worried about the oil spill, but I worry more about losing everything I worked my whole life to get. Keep calling Washington, don’t give up. Jesus really does love us all, (no electric bill required!).
I feel for you Miggie…I’m there too..on top of my house being in foreclosure I am going to lose our ONE vehicle this 5 member family has if I can’t start making payments. I just realized last Sunday that I only have $100 left on Tier 1 extension and in the state of Indiana it reads that we won’t be moving to the next tier!? That’s nuts! Some have gotten all 5 Tiers in this state and because I still had 2 weeks left on my Tier I missed moving to the next level? I hope I misunderstood but I have a gut feeling I did not! I don’t know what we are going to do if we lose my little bit of unemployment. My husband’s ex wife gets his income so we live on next to nothing if I am unable to provide. I’ve had a few interviews but nothing ever comes of it. I am so sorry about the food pantry scenario….we have some great ones here in Central Indiana…I’m sorry you had so much trouble. Honestly, without the two food pantries I’ve gone to…I don’t know how we would’ve made it this past year!
God Bless You and Good Luck to all!!!
This is the same old story that this Government has operated on for years. From all of us deadbeats looking for a free ride maybe the fat cats in DC should think how free the ride is when you only get a few hundred dollars a week and your electric bill is 320.00 per month.
I went so far as to further my education while out of work and for what ? Great I have more education and still no job. Thanks a lot American Government. Maybe if you stopped paying the ride for all of the immigrants that came here without the right to be here we who were born here and worked here and paid taxes could have a job of our own.
The American way is outstanding as long as your not american and werent born in America.
God Bless America???? Bite Me
Amen!
Dennis we need to vote out these cluless come NOV.2010,2011 and 2012.YOU HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD.I could not have said it any clearer.Thanks YOU, some one knows whats going on YOU.Just how i feel this country is never coming out of this for many many years to come.Time to move out.
sick of same old S%#T
This is awful! 44% of the unemployed have been unemployed for more than 6 months and 40% of them are over 45 years old. It’s a YOUNG country and if you aren’t forget about it! AND Congress forgot about the long term unemployed by NOT adding a TIER 5 to their recent extension. Thanks for 99 weeks but what now ?? How do all these decent folks who have exhausted not only their benefits but their life savings go on ?? HELP!
Tier v people,
Remember NELP.
They have been silent and invisible on TIER V as
each day week month goes by where we cant pay our rent buy groceries pay basic bills lose our houses our hope our dignity.
When i went to the UNEMPLOYED FRIENDS websight and posted my thoughts on NELP I was immediately banned from the sight?
WTF
with unemployed friends like that who needs enemies?
Tier V people do you notice that we seem to be coming up with our own ideas- march on washington
petitions
calling and emailing president press congress?
We are fighting this alone from square one when an organization has all the tools and options and contacts with press and Washington like NELP. This is wrong.
I get the impression that NELP thinks we should have found a job by now
When jobs have never been more scarce!!!
Keep calling and emailing the president and congress and the press!!!
Fight the good fight do not go gently into that good night.
Feel free to post my letter anywhere you think it might help.
post it to unemployed friends and see what happens!!!!
Dear Congress,
Has your staff told you or showed you the thousands upon thousands of calls and letters in regards to TIER V UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSIONS for the 2 million who have used 99 weeks and need a lifeline emergency extension? All house and senate are getting them in volume. Democrats and republicans.
But the silence on TIER V is amazing!!!
It seems to be falling upon deaf ears in congress!!
A march on Washington is being planned now.
Lives are in the balance on this!!!
These Americans by no fault of their own
Cannot find work after nearly two years!!!
We are in an economic depression not seen since the 1930’s.
An economic tsunami is coming to every shore in America soon.
Economist will call it a double dip recession That was unexpected.
I will call it a part 2 depression.
The jobs that were added in March were federal census jobs that last only a few weeks so please for your own credibility do not play that card.
This economic crisis was caused by the republicans and some democrats as well.
Also the banks wall street and the rich are to blame.
Then they were to big to fail and we bailed then out insteads of the working class and unemployed! shame shame shame.
Please inform your fellow congressmen on both sides this TIER V greater than 99 weeks unemployment extension issue WILL cost them the election.
Not health care not the rest. This TIER V will.
do you have hearts?. Pay for this anyway you have to but pass it now.
PLease wake your friends in WAshington.
THis is not going away it will get louder and louder until TIER V is passed!!!
This is the worst job market in history!!!!!
The future is now TIER V TIER V TIER V
godbless you and godbless america!!!
I agree Carol, Overqualified, Age, Pay Scale, nothing for us experienced workers!
do not give a tier 5 and see all of us on Welfare!
This can’t be the america dream,you work hard all your life, pay tax’s take care of the poor all over the world.send billion’s in to space,in the rich get richer and poor get poorer in stay po.well i’ll tell you.were do congress think that money came from the tax payer like wake up, if you are for the people who made this great country.take care of the american long term unemployed we need a Tier 5 to survive. take care of all the unemployed americans out of work. it’s our tax’s dollar’s if you can do it for the bank’s and wall street. you can do it for us,the bill’ keep comeing,children got to eat.we need Tier5
I email and telephone our elected officials weekly. I finally got a White House representative to admit that they are receiving MANY telephone calls about a Tier 5. Congressman Sherrod Brown-D from Ohio’s office said they are working on a bill for the 99ers long term employed. I asked when it would be seen and there was no answer.
I am afraid that we have become the issue they hope will die and disappear.
Obama and the others have let us down and we MUST remember this in 2010 and in 2012 as we VOTE. So much for Change America…..it is business as normal……Just a different salesman with the same TIRED PRODUCT.
WE MUST DEMAND A TIER 5 benefits…..NOW !!!
Be prepared!! this is the beginning of the end!! America will crash down completely..
I NEED A TIER 5 I HAVE BENN LOOKING 4 WORK AND ITS NOT THERE AND ITS NOT GETTING BETTER PLEASE HELP ME I HAVE BREATHING TROUBLE AND ITS NOT EASY TO MAKE IT
People, posting online at websites like these is understandable, but KNOW THAT UNLESS YOU CONTACT BY EMAIL AND PREFERABLY BY PHONE YOUR SENATORS AND REPS and TELL THEM THIS, it does NO good and is wasted typing. So fine, post here, compare notes, but nobody that can help sees this…contact your SENATOR and HOUSE REP FIRST!!! Otherwise, nothing can possibly change and you are just preaching to the choir.
I did my part. I sent 6 free faxes today to the P, VP, Kyl, Reis, Bacus, Pelosi
Will do others tomorrow. Go do your part.
http://joblessunite.yolasite.com/m-a-y-d-a-y.php
i like so many other people took one of those full time temporary positions just to find out it counted as part of my 99 weeks! this is rediculious! congress and sentate need to do something now! before its too late to help any of us because we will all be on welfare, states will be overrun and then guess what? the great depression will start all over again! and you can take that to the bank as goldman and sachs did.
Let’s face it…..”the System is Broken” America will continue to spend on supporting the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars for more than 8 years. It is “protecting” our nation and yet these same elected officials debate, avoid and make criminal claims about the long term unemployed requiring more than 99 weeks during a financial crisis not seen since the great depression. This includes “Mr.Change” himself Obama, and I campaigned and voted for him.
This picture is much larger than a 99 week extension or Tier 5 of unemployment. Our elected officials are the WEALTHY, IN CONTROL, ELITE……they control our nation for their own selfish agenda and interests.
They would rather see the long term unemployed in foreclosure, bankruptcy, etc……..WHY ???
Because the majority,the American employed voting public is upset about the growing deficit…..”we must fund the wars, it is protecting America”, “Wall Street must be bailed out for America’s financial security” “We must fund and help out other nations in a crisis, as a compassionate, caring world leader” “healthcare reform is a major accomplishment, now all Americans will have healthcare” (they are unemployed and can’t afford healthcare, but they have healthcare)ETC, ETC, ETC…….
SO…..the long term unemployed are the ones to sweep under the rug….”they are the lazy welfare, etc” BUT we live in a nation which prides itself in “God Bless America” “Christian Based” “Protecting Marriage from Gays” “Protecting us from PORN” “Protecting the unborn and fighting abortion” ……….on and on.
YET AMERICA’S GREED WILL LET THE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED BECOME HOMELESS, WITHOUT FOOD, BANKRUPT, ETC….all on the foundation of “GOD BLESS AMERICA IN OUR CHRISTIAN BASED NATION”
POWER, GREED, SELFISH AGENDA’S AND POLITICAL GAIN…..at the expense of unemployed Americans….
I wonder if President and/or Mrs. Obama have visited an American Tent City of the unemployed ?
THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN…….
Hi, i have been out of work since the end of 07. Looked for work been told i am overqualified or underqualified. Imagine i couldnot get hired at target. I am a fifty-seven year old female whos recently became a widow and really need them to give us a TIER V OR SIX OR SEVEN until all americans can become employed again. I guess us unemployed just have to keep the faith and keep calling the president,vice-president and the senators until they here us loud and clear.
we need help bad unemployment tier 5 im going to lost the house if you dont do someing
5-6-10 The latest unemployment number “dropped” to 444,000. “DOWN” because all the long-term unemployed are dropping off the rolls by the thousands and are NO LONGER BEING COUNTED! “Down” because 600,000 folks are working temporary, low-paying census jobs. Taking those factors into account, the unemployment rate is actually RISING. We need TIER 5 TO SURVIVE!!!
I now receive food stamps – WELFARE! – to feed my kids because the ex is an over 99 weeker, not getting EUC anymore and can’t pay child support.
so sorry to all.. it’s hard out there.. but just stay positive. at least that’s what I am trying to do.
i agree,and always pray”not just for this situwation but all the time,god never lets me down”"”
I voted and campaigned for Mr.Obama, He spoke about “CHANGE”, I had no clue he ment “CHANGE” as in nickels, dimes and pennies for the unemployed.
CNN BUSINESS NEWS today Freddie Mac needs another $10.6 Billion.
What about the long term unemployed, sadly, Obama is no better than George W. Bush !!!
ummmmmm….
I have 2 more checks left. I’m working part time at $8.50 an hour and its not gonna cut my rent, bills and support my 2 children and I’m doing it by myself. I went to welfare they won’t help me. They told me I make too much money at my part time job. I lost some of my WIC cause one of my oldest turned 5 and again I’m making too much money. Come on now they need to extend benefits till the end of the year.
WAKE UP LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED !!!
I just spoke with a representative from Senator Harry Reids office in Vegas they are working on a Tier5, BUT they are reciving ONLY apporox. 12 calls per day about a TIER 5.
WAKE UP AND START CALLING ASAP.Hardship stories are great to share, but we need to be CALLING , Emailing and DEMANDING A TIER 5 !!!!!!!
THIS IS YOUR FUTURE PLEASE ACT NOW…have friends and family call and email also.
Response from Sen Dick Durbin 5-13-2010All federal unemployment benefit programs were originally set to expire at the end of December 2009. We are working to pass a measure to extend the current programs through the end of 2010. That measure has been slowed by a debate over whether and how to offset the cost of the extension.
Unfortunately, on two occasions, certain members of the Senate Minority have objected even to temporary extensions of these programs, forcing thousands of individuals to lose unemployment benefits for days or weeks. It is irresponsible for members of Congress to play politics with this issue while forcing citizens across the country to pay the price.
A number of individuals are exhausting the maximum 99 weeks of unemployment benefits currently available. Each week, this number grows. Many are now advocating making unemployment benefits available beyond the current 99 weeks. Unfortunately, the intense focus on the federal budget deficit and opposition from certain Senators is making it increasingly difficult to even maintain the current level of benefits, much less increase the number of weeks of coverage. While the best solution is an economic upturn, Congress must not overlook the long term unemployed who exhaust all benefits.
Unemployment insurance is a critical safety net for our nation’s workers. In these difficult economic times, our first priority must be to help Americans return to work, while ensuring that the unemployed receive assistance to help make ends meet while they look for a new job. I welcome your support for unemployment insurance and will continue to work to address the current job situation.
Thank you again for contacting me. Please feel free to keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin”
I don’t get the tier stuff, i have not recieved the last 2 extentions, yet i know people in several states that have been on unemployment alot longer, how is this possible??? this Does not make any sence, shouldn’t everyone get the same amount of weeks in each tier?? Please give me an answer, I can give names of others who have been on unemployment alot longer than than I and are still recieving it and I haven’t been since 3-29-10! i HAVE LOST MY HOME, MY CAR WAS REPOSSED AND BECAUSE OF AGE i CANNOT SEEM TO GET A JOB ANYWHERE! WILL BE HAPPY TO TELL YOU ALL THE PLACES I HAVE APPLIED!!! WHERE DOES THE 99 WEEKS COME IN AT??? SINCERELY DEBBY
I AM UNEMPLOYED AND HAVE WENT EVERYWHERE LOOKING FOR A JOB..EVERY DAY ITS APPLICATIONS AND NO LUCK..I WENT ON 3 INTERVIEWS AND 2 WERE FOR HOUSE KEEPING IN A HOSPITAL AND I WAS TOLD I DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIANCE..NOW WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THAT..I AM 41 YEARS OLD GETTING READY TO TURN 42 AND I WAS TOLD BY SOMEONE AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE THAT IF YOU ARE 40 OR OVER COMPANYS PROBABLY WONT HIRE BECAUSE THEY WAN THE YOUNG ONE RIGHT OT OF HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLAGE.I AM ON MY FIRST EXTENSION BUT I WAS TOLD THAT WHEN I RECIEVE MY LAST 2 CHECKS I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DRAW ANYMORE..I THOUGH THERE WERE 4 TIERS..SO WHERE IS THE REST OF IT AT IF I’M ONLY ON THE FIRST EXTENSION..GO FIGURE..I GUESS US OLDER ONES ARE SUPPOSE TO PUT OUR 16 YEAR OLD CHILDREN OUT THERE TO WORK AND SUPPORT US PLUS DUE THERE SCHOOLING..I AM A MOTHER OF A 16 AND 6 YEAR OLD AND THANK GOD MY MOTHER IN LAW LETS US LIVE IN HER EXTRA MOBILE HOME..BUT WE STILL HAVE LIGHTS WATER AND OTHER BILLS LIKE CAR INSURANCE GROCERIES AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND CLOTHES FOR THE KIDS SO HOW ARE WE THAT HAVE WORKED ALL OF OR LIVES SUPPOSE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN WHEN THE GOVERMENT WANTS TO TAKE OUR ONLY MEANS OF MONEY AWAY FROM US..I ONLY WISH THEY WORRIED ABOUTOUR COUNTRY INSTEAD OF EVERY OTHER ONE..IF THEY HAD TO TRY AND LIVE LIKE US NORMAL WORKING CLASS PEOPLE FROM CHECK TO CHECK MAYBE THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND..ALL I CAN SAY IS GOD PLEASE BE WITH US ALL AND HELP US FIND WORK..
Melonie,
I completely understand. I am going to exhaust my Tier 1 extension next week when I use up the $100 balance. I know some in my own county who have used all 5 extensions! They way our state unemployment reads I don’t think I will be moving to the next level. What am I going to do? I am already fighting a foreclosure on my house I’ve lived in for 12 years and worked hard to have…..close to losing the only vehicle we own. It’s horrible! All this after I finished my Master’s Degree Feb 2008. Makes me wonder what I wasted my time for. I’m 37 years old and nobody wants to hire me because I’m overeducated! Who cares? I just want a job!!!
Good luck and God Bless!!
i like that,makes since to me since my twins are 18,and think i should keep supporting them..yeah ok..
Lauging Outloud —GM Aig Chrysler –Wall Street ?
Where in the hell does Congress think or thought all this money comes from -? The few men and woman in Congress, This group R so stupid they would get lost in a Telephone Booth. I am not white green black or red, but I know one damm thing not Until Martin Luther King Marched To Washington did anything change, We The People Must Vote Must Vote, or We R going down, the second Titanic around the corner, but its R fault ———Today an interview with a man Fowler in Washington had the nerve to discuss Arizona immagration and he admitted he never read the 10 age bill the attorney General had never read the bill, These people represent us, and they R paid and do nothing.
Its time to throw the rats out, and get common sense. The prime minister Margaret Thatcher of England once said, You Know eventually you run out of other peoples money. Well Thats The Tier 5 group and yet they do nothing, and the time is near they will certainly lose their jobs and if they R not voted out withing 8 months or less the bottom will fall out this is a fact
read this folks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/top-fed-official-offers-d_n_580963.html
I was a 99er.. I lost my benefits in March 09. I got a job making $8.00 an hour part time and still not making it im late on my rent my car is gonna be repossed. I was making $53k when I lost my job. I have to find another part time job I dont know what I am gonna do. Welcome to the underemployed.. I hope an extension goes through I was lucky to find a part time job. There are a lot of people who dont even have that. Its heart wrenching.. good luck..
get read of your car”dam i never owned one..
Keep calling your Senators and reps.
Send emails and sign petitions. Tier 5 is the most needed element of our economy right now.
Join the 28,000 that have signed this and it send directly to Washington for you.
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/the_99ers_need_a_tier_v_added_to_unemployment_benefits
Hot news on the griddle tonite, government sponsored school loans, millions of dollars a day are approved by gov loan specialists and given by banks to the universities. Few people realize for a few hours during the electronic transfer of funds from bank to university the money is borrowed by bankster ‘friends’ and used to buy put options and other stock purchases, all with the knowledge and consent of congress. Oh GORT as I stated previously I do have your goat. And she is definitely better looking than your last date.
My husband has been laid off for over a year. Resumes sent out nonstop and no reply’s. Former marine and than in plumbing industry. Finally things were looking up as he had the opportunity to get involved in offshore oil rigs…guess what that hope went down the tubes as the Horizon blew up. He has one tier left and stressed out about the senate passing the extension this week. It is enough with my pay to barely get by. I feel for the people who have kids and have lost there house. We both look for jobs for him and there just aren’t jobs yet.
If additional weeks arnt granted I am done for this week. I will be homeless. My landlord has been quite generous with letting me stay because I am in my 60′s and have a handicapped son but I reached the end of his genorisity.I am going to have to take what I have and move out and with no where to go no money its going to be tough. I have nothing all I got is 9 bucks in my wallet and about 100 in savings Its tough for me becauase I got a son that is handicapped and in a wheel chair and I am his only parent. Gongress says giving an extension will make us not work. No thats not the case I applied to over 50 places in the area. I ride my bike each day to go to places to ask them if they have looked at my app and they say no or were in the process. I keep pestering them because I need a job real bad. I have nothing so please congress pass something extension wise.
I WAS LAID OFF FROM MY JOB DUE TO CORRUPTION IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR OF THE COMPANY.EVENTUALLY OUR COMPANY FOLDED INTO BANKRUPTCY AND SHUT DOWN,LEAVING THOUSANDS OF WORKERS UNEMPLOYED.THIS WAS IN 2007/JULY 16TH.SINCE THEN I HAVE APPLIED FOR WORK AT EVERY BUSIMESS WITHIN MY RESIDENTIAL AREA.I HAVE BEEN HOMELESS SINCE 2007, AND HAVE TO LIVE FROM PILLOW TO POST.I HAVE PHYSICAL AND MENYAL DISORDERS AND CAN NOT AFFORD MEDICATION.I HAVE A SLEEP DISORDER AND STILL I HAVE WORKED FOR 34 YEARS.AFTER BEING LAID OFF I DREW MY UNEMPLOYMENT WHICH EXAUSTED ALL TIERS IN APRIL OF 2010.NOW WHAT?THE SAME OLD SCVENARIO,NOTHING FOR YOU TO DO.NOBODY IS HIRING BECAUSE EMPLOYERS ARE RELUTANT TO INCUR COST TO HIRE AMERICANS ,ESPECIALLY WHEN IMMIGRANTS SEEM TO WORK OUT FOR THEM BECAUSE OF INCENTIVES AND BENEFITS EMPLOYERS RECEIVE FROM GOVERNMENT TO HIRE THEM INSTEAD OF US.LIKE I SAID WHEN NAFTA WAS SIGNED INTO LAW.WE JUST WORKED OURSELVES OUT OF A JOB AND CREATED A MORE COMPETITIVE JOB MARKET FOR ALL AMERICANS.THE JOBS WENT TO MEXICO BECAUSE THE SLAVE MENTALITY” DISGUISED WITH FANCY TERMS TO EXPRESS IT.THIS IS UNFAIR TO A PEOPLE WHERE SLAVES PICKED COTTON,TOBASCCO ,CROPS AND WORKED HARD TO BUILD THIS COUNTRY,AND NOW THAT AMERICA IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH,WHY DO THEY TURN A DEAF EAR TO THE HEIRS OF THEIR PROSPERITY IN THIS TIME OF NEED,JOBLESSNESS AND A PENDING ON THE RISE CRIME RATE IF THINGS CONTINUE THIS WAY.JUST BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IGNORES OUR PLEAS FOR A JUST AND SOUND ECONOMIC SYSTEM TO BRIDGE OUR TROUBLES ,DOES NOT MEAN WE WILL NOT RECEIVE A POSIYIVES ANSWER
AME MENTALITY USED TO IMPOSE OXPLOITIVE EMPLOYMENT TACTICS ON BLACKS AND ENDENTURED SERVANTS IN THE SLAVE ERA IS THE SAME MENTALITY USED TO EMPLOY IMMIGRANTS AND HISPANICS.CHEAPER LABOR,HIGHER PROFITS AND LESS GOVERNMENT REGULASTION IN PLACES WHERE JOBS HAVE MOVED TO MEXICO OR CHINA WHERE PEOPLE WORK FOR LESS PAY THAN WE DO.”
Yep…lost my job 13 months ago from a company who sent our work to Mexico (factory work), then moved our accounting department (my dept) to the CEO’s location in Detroit up with the Big 3! Money and greed gets in the way of these major decisions and leaves us little people out in the cold! It’s BS!!
Tier 5 applicants for unemployment insurance benefits have been abandoned and left behind!
In the 60′ and 70′s people Had to get out on the streets and protest. Now all the protest is online. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
we must hit the streets and be seen!! Organize. Get it together as the hippies did in the past. PROTEST IN FULL VIEW OF THE CAMERAS.
TIER 5 TO SURVIVE
In this day of computers NO ONE IS SEEN protesting on the streets as our counterparts did in the 60′s and 70′s. We need to organize hit the streets and make the media PAY ATTENTION to us. we can not do that from our home infront of our computers. Take a note from the hippies.
Get out and PROTEST! BE SEEN.
TIER 5 TO SURVIVE!!!!!!
So after todays job report as we have ALL been saying most jobs were part time census jobs, Do you think Mr. Obama will Scold Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Baucus for making the so called 99ers feel like leeches? I hope so.
If Obama is going to be the daddy, he should put pelosi and Baucus over his knee and paddle their BIG BEHINDS for what they have done to the so called 99ers.
Tier 5 to survive!
we all should demand to know from our state reps and congress why this is always money regardless of the economy for welfare.healthy young people who never worked or paid taxes produce children to get a free ride! section8 housing food stamps clothing vouchers free medical college funding free cell phones and this is just a partial list!there are billions of dollars that should go to people who have worked and now need help as long as the jobs are not here.and no benefits of any kind to illegals!
Well said sir! I just came from a home where I visited folks who live on disability, (they are NOT disabled), the daughter lives with them and she get 500.00 a month in food stamps, WIC for her kids, (she is a single parent), she goes to the food pantries in 4 or 5 counties and their basement is FULL of food, juice, cereal, fridge downstairs has meats, cheeses, it looke like a grocery store in their basement! The dad and mom are divorced, so that they can get 2 disability checks, but still live together! We visited them tonight, and they had 8 to 10 big packages of name brand candy bars, beef jerky, chips, case after case of pop, milk. It was unreal. I have worked my whole life and last week my groceries consisted of 2 packs of hamburger and a loaf of bread. I wanted to bawl when I was leaving their home tonight. My car is going back to the bank on the 25th of June, after 5 years of paying faithfully. God help us. Our system is so broken and backward, it will take a miracle to fix it. I never want to have to lie like they do to get what they have, but I want a fair shot to make it on my own, I just need a helping hand, not a “hand out”.
Miggie, that is nuts!!! I would feel the same way! It is horrible how some people can lie to get what they have when we are all suffering. It’s not fair!
thats a dam shame,i would report them”but god will get them”"‘and goodluck to you,
WELL IM LOSING EVERYTHING I OWN AND THE GOVERMENT SIT ON THERE BUTTS AND DONT CARE .. THEY MAKE GOOD MONEY AND LIVE IN BIG HOUSES,NICE CARS..THIS IS THE POWER OF SOME DUMB BUTT PEOPLE IN OFFICE.. WHY DONT WE PUT THEM OUT OF THERE JOBS AND THEN TELL THEM THERES NO UNEMPLOYMENT MONEY FOR YOU … IT JUST SADDINS MY HEART THAT OUR GOVERMENT CAN TURN ITS BACK ON THE PEOPLE WHO KEPT THIS STATE GOING… WELL I JUST WANNA SAY TO ALL WHO UNEMPLOYED GOD BLESS YOU SO VERY MUCH …THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN OFFICE CAN KISS MY —-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS STATE IS GOING TO HECK WITH THE JERKS WHO ARE RUNNING IT…
yeah f..k em they’er all full ok shit”"”"
You need to head down to louisianna. And of course not help with the oil spill, because we realize you arent the type to help anyone or have empathy for anyone. While your there go see the midnight matinee of ROOTS. I am sure you will enjoy it, you can watch human beings suffer, while making fun of them too. You have no Idea what its like to walk in some of these peoples shoes!! Probably a spoiled brat who has never had to work your whole life. Do something constuctive instead of making fun of the poor and needy!! Oh Yeah, Get lost!!
The last time I sent an email to my elected officials stating the reason why we need a Tier 5 all I got was an automated response. I also told them that unless there is a Tier5 I could not support any candidate running as a republican or democrat and that I would write in Sir John A Macdonald and William LM King I have also received emails from both parties wanting me to contribute. My response was blunt and to the point I need a job and if you want me to contribute my salary need to be at least 100,000 / year
Today is June 8, 2010 my name is Debra Davidson. I have been unemployed since January 8, 2009. I’m legally blind, Developmentally Disabled and suffer from mental illness. It has been Extremely hard for me to find a job. The truth is there are no jobs out there. I live in New Jersey were the Unemployment rate is 10.2% . It is extremely hard for someone with Developmentally Disabled, is legally blind and suffering from mental illness to find a job. I’m constantly looking, sending out my resume and getting no responses. I have bills to pay, food to put on the table, a roof to keep over my head, medical bills to pay, and pay for my medications just like everyone else including you Congress men and Representatives. You spend billions on wars and don’t think about the budget. Are you trying to put all of us that are unemployed into poverty? Please, Please we desperately need tier five Unemployment and money beyond that to survive this economic crises which we did not create.
Sincerely,
Debra Davidson
I to am 41 yrs old and was laid off do to the recession 2 yrs ago,I will exhaust my unemployment next week, then what? I guess off to get state assistance. I don’t want to go on assistance I want a job, I want to work. Like so many others I have worked all my life, but there are no jobs or there are so many people applying for that 1 position the employers are in heaven getting to choose the pick of the litter. But what happens to the rest of us, what happens when we can’t pay our rent, pay electricity or feed our children. I look and I apply for anything and everything I can. Its not a matter of having the skills as it is having the jobs out there to apply for. The problem with apply for everything is that so many are tossed aside because we are over qualified or the employer thinks they will have to pay us more because we have degrees. I could care less at this point, I just want to work and am willing to take that pay cut from what I am used to just to have a job. It would change if politicians lost their income and had to worry about feeding their children even for one week. How can they sleep at night knowing so many children will go to bed hungry cause they wont do what is right.
Come november there will be millions of us who have ran out of benifits. Most of us worked for 30 years or more and never took any government money.We can be the biggest block of voters they have seen. Lets stick together and let them know we will vote out anybody that does not help us. We made this country and now it is turning its back on us. Let your senators and congressmen know your vote depends on how they vote for a tier 5. And anybody in nancy pelosie district vote her out she is the most uncaring speaker we have ever had.
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And let’s not forget how joblessness leads to more divorces, criminal acts of breaking and entering, robbing, looting, car jackings, murder, spouse abuse leading to jail time, alcoholism and rampant drug abuse that is going to happen because of too much free time and not enough money. What congress doesnt understand is that it’s harder not to work and stay home all day with nothing to do than be working and productive. One or two weeks off is great but 2 years off is misery!
AMEN!! Only thing here is I wouldn’t become an alcohol abuser cause I can’t afford to buy the alcohol…LOL All jokes aside…I completely agree!! Financial stress is about the only thing my husband and I ever fight over…we work and work and never seem to get anywhere…We are tired of treading water!! Since I lost my job May 2009 it seems we are worse off than we have ever been and it’s getting worse not better!
I really hope they figure something out soon. We just got our notice to appear in court for an eviction…We have not been able to pay rent for two months approaching the third soon…We owe 1400 according to court records. We have no ins on our van which we are still paying on so I am sure they will be coming to retrieve it because along with no ins we have not made a payment for almost 3 months on that too… We are behind two months on all bill so shut offs should be on their way too. We have three babies 7,4, and 1yrs old….Hubby has been unemployed since his company went out of business april 2007…We have never ever been in a situation like this ever and have always kept up on our bill…I don’t know how to explain to my kids that they may have to get rid of everything they treasure because mommy and daddy cannot pay rent and have nowhere to go…I have no idea what we are going to do..I cry and am crying just trying to sort it out…I really disgusted that these lawmakers that are taking their time have and never will have to deal with something like this will never have to explain to their children that they have no place to go and are losing everything……And Obama what a joke he promised change and there is none that has happened and I see none coming to help us struggling people out….no jobs in site….no unemployment to help us to just get buy….meanwhile he gets to go on vacations and know he has has home to come to afterwards with not a worry in his mind..the healthcare did not need a reform the job market does….we need work…how are we going to pay for the ins that we are required to purchase without work…I am so upset right now..I don’t even know if any of this makes sense its just one big mess…
I know how you all feel I have been unemployed since October 2007, I am a single mom, I lost my apartment because I couldn’t pay the rent anymore. They keep delaying Tier V. They send out all of this paperwork to get you to go back to school which I am going but how am I to support my son. There are no jobs in NJ. Any interviews I do go on I am over qualified or to many applicants. PLEASE WE AS AMERICANS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS………….
Deloris Jack,
You, first of all need to go back to school and learn proper grammar! Then while your busy telling a desperate woman how stupid she is for marrying a man with children, why dont you speak to the right people? Congress!!! Its clear you have no empathy for human dignity, so engage yourself in some reading and gaining some knowledge which is much needed on your part! You tell this woman she should not have married the man she loves…. What a dog you are!! We all need to realize that Dick (no pun intended)and Georgie put this entire country into this crisis,and the middle class who are now being reduced to poverty, and you are making fun of!! You Deloris have the nerve to tell off a poor victim of the wall street scandals and bankers illegal activites? You are insane. Go to some other blog site, where people like you with nothing but hate belong like the GOP site! Get lost!! Or better yet go down to Louisanna and of course dont help with the oil spill, because we all know your kind does not do that! But how about the midnight matinee the showing of ROOTS? You should love that movie, you can watch human beings suffering and make fun of them while watching. And no, I am not African American! I am a white caucasion female that thinks, one day you will pay, for your comments to the poor and needy, now get lost!!!
Amen Melissa!!!!
please go to our site giveusourmoney.org we are setting up committees to help tier v and 99ers please join up and help us united we stand divided we fall. Time is of the essense and we will all be tier v someday do it now giveusourmoney.org Don’t Quit fight fight