170,000, that depends on if you believe the Obama administration or the AP both very iffy propositions.

Not a single employEE has ever paid unemployment insurance in North Carolina. EVER. -beachboater

Well, yes and no.

There's a pretty solid argument that that is money that could go into your paycheck if it didn't cover the unemployment insurance instead.

Just like the $x the employer pays toward your healthcare could go into your check if he wasn't spending it for healthcare.

Did anyone realize that the FEDERAL unemployment tax, again paid only by the employER, DOUBLED this year because of the debt from the state to the feds? And it will stay at that rate until the loan is paid back- beachboater.

That's the POINT. That's the CORRECT way to fix the problem. Because it was those employers who benefitted for unreasonably state tax rates that CAUSED THE PROBLEM.

So they should have to pay it back.

Instead the state is shoving much of that debt on the backs of the unemployed.

"What some people don't get is every employee and employer pays into these benefits and most never have to use them"

Not a single employEE has ever paid unemployment insurance in North Carolina. EVER.

Did anyone realize that the FEDERAL unemployment tax, again paid only by the employER, DOUBLED this year because of the debt from the state to the feds? And it will stay at that rate until the loan is paid back.

North Carolina has cut the benefit period in the past. And can you guess what happened each time? Unemployment went DOWN.

Obama wants to again extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks in his budget wants.

Thie state and this country do not have the money to continue endlessly paying these UT benefits. We're paying people to stay home and not work for 2 years!!! If someone hasn't found a job in 6 months, chances they are not looking, don't want to work, or they are unemployable.

I don't think there are many that are unemployable.

"and the state's economy will lose $780 million in federal funds that are vital to reducing North Carolina's high unemployment rate."

Now tell me again, just how does cutting off unemployment benefits help reduce the unemployment rate? I guess we must be encouraging people to go back to work while we pay them to stay home.

55+ and lost my job. UI didnt come close to paying bills for a while soaked up saving Guess Ill work for nothing and go to the er if somethings happens to me.When I went to a meeting at the esc they put about 12 of us in a room. I was the youngest one of the group. A couple of ladies in there had worked at the same place forever. I could see the pain in one of them face. Don't worry one day it may be you.

He just said that the feds are cutting it off,but we should continue,what a hypocrite,

Really? LOL. It's unemployment insurance, not a way of life. Dumbocrats extended the benefits to buy votes, i.e. pander to a specific voting block.

Unemployment insurance is only supposed to last so long and the Feds had no right to extend it in the first place.

Get a job.

immaannoid Maybe you should "Get the Facts" the House voted for the Extention in Benefits, and who pray tell controls the house?

. Don't you realize that the current benefit pays as much or more than a lot of these unemployed were making.- wheelman

No, I don't because that's not true.

The UE payment is always a _percentage_ of what you earned when employed.

It's mathematically impossible for it to be MORE than you made.

In most cases it's tremendously less.

The only people making more than $290/week are folks who were making a LOT more than min-wage when employed.

You might wanna learn how the program actually works before trying to speak intelligently about changing it, huh?

Looks like readme has never been 50+ and laid off by her employer, with a mortgage, bills, insurance, etc. in a state with 9% unemployment. See how fast you lose your savings and your health, then see how long it takes to find suitable employment.

Try sticking to things you have a clue about.

Wheelman, if you made minimum wage you will not be getting $350/ week. You will receive much less. The employer that dumped you will scarcely pay more but you will get muuuuuch less.

"It might sound cruel but we need to stop giving all the freebies to illegal immigrants." - Disabled Veteran

Naw, it just sounds ignorant. This is a conversation about US citizens getting unemployment benefits. These illegals of which you speak don't get unemployment benefits.

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