Thursday, April 16, 2009 | 2:08 p.m.
CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons has signed a bill that will permit Nevada to accept $270 million in federal stimulus funds to help the state’s rising ranks of unemployed workers.
Assembly Bill 469 will extend jobless benefits by seven weeks, increase the weekly checks by $25 and make an additional 4,100 people eligible for benefits.
Those who are expiring their 72 weeks of unemployment benefits will get another seven weeks of checks from the state. The state Employment Security Division says the increased payments will be retroactive to Feb. 22, the date of federal approval.
Unemployed people whose payments are sent to debit card accounts will receive the money quicker than those who get their benefits by check, the division said.
There is no firm date when the first payments will be dispensed.
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