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The New York Unemployment Insurance Law, enacted in 1935 and codified at Article 18 of the Labor Law, implements US unemployment insurance within New York. As with most states, the maximum period for receiving benefits is 26 full weeks during a one-year period (benefit year). [4]
99ers is a colloquial term for unemployed people in the United States, mostly citizens, who have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, including all unemployment extensions. As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress in February 2009, many unemployed people could receive up to 99 weeks of unemployment ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Unemployment claims in New York increased last week. Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday ...
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in New York last week compared with the week prior.
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 222,000 last week, down 17,000 claims from 239,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. North Dakota saw the largest percentage increase in weekly ...
The state you live in also determines the maximum number of weeks eligible applicants may collect UI benefits. The reality is that in most cases, it’s only enough money to help subsidize your ...
The New York Times editorial board wrote in August 2013: "As measured by the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, low-paid work in America is lower paid today than at any time in modern memory. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation or average wages over the past nearly 50 years, it would be about $10 an hour; if it had kept ...