"good move legislature. $500 a week is $26K a year and that is a lot more than annual minimum wage $18.2K

sure it's tough.......but that's a great motivator to get any job. wakewiseone"

I was earning $26k a year and my unemployment benefits are NOT $500 a week, are you kidding??...you need to get a clear understanding of the system before throwint out incorrect facts and figures.

And guess what? Finding a job that makes enough to support you, equal to what you had before, IS NOT THAT EASY.

P.S. And thank you, junkmail5, for the clarifications.

littleriver69,

I guess you must be happily employed while some of us who work very hard got laid off due to lack of work and can't find a job. I am college educated, have sent out hundreds of resumes, and NO I cannot live on minimum wage, period. So now my unemployment is about to run out just because we are rejecting federal money. Let me know where you live and I'll come hang out with you, sounds like you have no worries.

do you really think the state undercharged these businesses and besides that if youve ever been and filed for unemployment they calculate how much you have paid in sitting there in front of you as well as sent you a letter in the mail telling you in detail how much you made in the quarter your drawing off of how much you paid in and how much you will get ive done this more than once in the last 25 years so yeah i know exactly what im talking about

federal extended benefits is a bunch of bull. IF I WORKED FOR 30 YEARS THAT MEANS I PAID IN FOR 30 YEARS. THAT MEANS 26 WEEKS PER YEAR TIMES 30 YEARS IM ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE. EQUAL TO 780 WEEKS. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE IT COMES FROM IF THE STATE SPENT IT THE STATE SHOULD PAY IT BACK. I CANT HELP IT IF ALL Y'ALL PEOPLE LIVE A NICE FANTASY LIFE WITH YOU HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART AND HAVE THAT DREAM JOB THAT APPARENTLY Y'ALL LIVE UNTIL YOU ARE OUT LOOKING FOR A JOB AND THINK ITS THAT EASY TO FIND ONE THAT PAYS FOR YOU TO LIVE. GREAT MOTIVATOR TO HELP YOU FIND A JOB BULL. 350 DOLLARS UNEMPLOYMENT A WEEK IS STILL MORE THAN MCDONALDS. UNTIL Y'ALL WORK AND LIVE WHAT LITTLE BIT OF WHAT YOU CALL LIFE WITH YOUR FAMILY ON IT I WOULDNT BE TALKING ABOUT IT. ITS MY MONEY I PAID IT IN FOR WHEN I NEED IT AND NEITHER YOU NOR THE GOVERNMENT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TELL ME I HAVE TO LOWER MY STANDARD OF LIVING AND I HAVE TO GIVE UP WHATS ALREADY MINE.

Junkmail5, thank you for clearing that up for me. It is greatly appreciated.

A federal loan to the state. The money has to be paid back to the federal government. It wasn't a handout. Riddickfield

totally and completely wrong.

FEDERAL extended benefits are a FEDERAL program.

The money comes from the feds.

The state does not pay it back.

The state only pays for 26 weeks and that's it.

Serious, you have no idea what you are talking about.

The borrowed money is because the # of unemployed shot up during the recession, and the state didn't have the $ for those 26 weeks.

Because they had been under-taxing businesses for years.

So instead of now making those businesses pay it back, they're jacking the unemployed for the cash.

That's what's happening here.

"the STATE never paid more than 26 weeks.

All the extended benefits are federal."

A federal loan to the state. The money has to be paid back to the federal government. It wasn't a handout.

good move legislature. $500 a week is $26K a year and that is a lot more than annual minimum wage $18.2K

sure it's tough.......but that's a great motivator to get any job. wakewiseone

You realize folks making min wage weren't getting 500 a week right?

It was folks making north of $50,000 that got the $500.

So that's a 50% or greater pay cut.

You can bet they'd be in a hurry to find another job closer to what they used to make.

sure it's tough.......but that's a great motivator to get any job.

wakewiseone February 13, 2013 5:08 p.m. ----------- No offense intended, but I don't think you've read the whole article, or know the whole truth of this.

The reason the STATE is in debt is they undercharged the businesses for years, so the fund to pay those 26 weeks was far too small to deal with an uptick in the number of people unemployed.

You might wanna learn how what you're talking about works before talking about it.

junkmail5 February 13, 2013 4:53 p.m.------------------------ Dead on with this one. They over paid, but then didn't want to collect the money back. The computer system was so screwed up, they under paid some, way over paid others, then they "oh well" we'll have to pay it back. Took two years to get rid of the director, and no one was fired for this. Oh, now they'll pay the money back, in three years! But at what cost our economy and those who'll suffer for it.

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