Eligible individuals will be contacted by mail. Claims will be paid quickly
HARRISBURG, PA, December 17, 2010/PRNewswire-USNewswire /-President Obama today promulgated an extension of the emergency unemployment compensation and extended benefits until December 2011.
Act providing for no additional benefits beyond the weeks currently licensed 99. Because the Act is retroactive, eligible applicants can receive benefits at the time of the previous law expired on 27 November 2010.
"This is great news for Pennsylvanians 140 000 which would have been without benefits in December had Congress and the President has not acted to restore this evil necessary financial lifeline," said Secretary Sandi Vito labour and industry. "We're accelerating demand for treatment to quickly obtain money to people who are their work no fault of their own and help pay for food, shelter, utilities and other products of first need while they are seeking to reintegrate into the labour market."
"All eligible persons will be contacted by mail, and service providers will receive payment as quickly as possible" Vito said.
Applications will be processed immediately to those who continued to submit claims for biweekly EUC for weeks after 27 November 2010 and extended claims weeks after 4 December 2010.
Eligible individuals who have not filed EUC claims after 27 November 2010, are encouraged to so beginning Monday, December 20, online www.uc.pa.gov or in system Teleclaims PA or PAT, at 1-888-255-4728.
Applicants have ceased filing requests for extended State paper benefits after 4 December must call the top Canada service for instructions on how to deposit.
Created in 2008, the EUC program provides up to 53 weeks of additional benefits for persons who have exhausted the maximum of 26 weeks of benefits from the State. The resumption of federal funding also allows Pennsylvanians benefit again from up to 20 weeks of State extended benefits.
CUF payable last week is the week ending 9 June 2012.
For more information, visit www.uc.pa.gov.
Contact: David Smith, 717-787-7530
The Pennsylvania Department of work and industry SOURCE
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