{"id":7046,"date":"2011-12-24T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/employment-security-halts-phase-out-of-emergency-unemployment-benefits\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:05:32","slug":"employment-security-halts-phase-out-of-emergency-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/employment-security-halts-phase-out-of-emergency-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Security halts phase-out of emergency unemployment benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The\u00a0 congressional approval Friday of a two-month extension of  long-term jobless benefits provides a reprieve to about 40,000  unemployed workers in Washington state who would have lost their  unemployment benefits by the end of January \u2013 and another 20,000 who  would lose them by the end of February.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>With today\u2019s action, the state Employment Security Department has halted its phase-out of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/uibenefits\/fileweekly\/extension\/emergency-unemployment-compensation.php\" target=\"_blank\">emergency unemployment compensation<\/a>\u201d (EUC) program.\u00a0 Without a change in federal law, the program could have admitted no additional participants after Dec. 31.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Congress also continued a second long-term benefits program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/uibenefits\/fileweekly\/extension\/extended-benefits-faq.php\" target=\"_blank\">extended benefits<\/a>.\u00a0  It was slated to shut down in Washington state later in January,  further accelerating the number of people losing their unemployment  benefits.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>\u201cThe congressional vote not only showed compassion, but also the  awareness that we need to add a lot more job opportunities before  eliminating the safety net,\u201d said Joel Sacks, deputy commissioner of the Employment Security.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><strong>Web links<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Employment Security \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.esd.wa.gov<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div>Fact sheet on EUC and extended benefits &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/newsandinformation\/factsheets\/emergency-unemploy-comp-extended-benefits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/newsandinformation\/factsheets\/emergency-unemploy-comp-extended-benefits.pdf#zoom=100<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The  congressional approval Friday of a two-month extension of long-term jobless benefits provides a reprieve to about 40,000 unemployed workers in Washington state who would have lost their unemployment benefits by the end of January \u2013 and another 20,000 who would lose them by the end of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}