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Unemployment extension november 2008 - for real? Well apparently the extend unemployment insurance for seven weeks for unemployed workers who are out of benefits and for an additional 13 weeks of benefits for those in states with an unemployment rate higher than 6% is approved.

After unemployment extension is signed, extended benefits will be administered by the state unemployment offices White House Press Secretary Dana Perino says.

And what the terms of Extended Unemployment Benefits :

• Candidates “must be unemployed, looking for and able to work,” and “must have worked full time for at least 20 weeks during a 12-month period before filing [the] initial claim.”
• “In general, [the extension] will be the same dollar amount as [the] regular benefit but will last half as long, up to 13 weeks.”
• “The program expires at the end of March [2009] unless Congress renews it. If [the person] runs out of regular benefits before then and is eligible for extended benefits, [the person] can keep getting them past March 31.”