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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | 9:28 a.m.
CARSON CITY – While Congress has been unable to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, nearly 40,000 Nevadans have lost their weekly benefits.
The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says within seven to 10 days of the bill's approval, claimants will start receiving letters that they are on the list of those potentially eligible to receive extended benefits.
Cynthia Jones, deputy director of the department, said the letters will contain specific instructions to prevent claimants from waiting unnecessarily on the phone.
She said those who are unemployed shouldn't call claim centers until they receive the notification in the mail that signals their claim has been automatically reopened and the agency is ready for their weekly claims to be filed.
There are an estimated 93,670 people receiving unemployment checks now in Nevada.
In Washington, the measure is expected to pass later today. The House would take it up Wednesday and then send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
In & Out, Wendy's, Carl Jr, Subway, Walmart, Target, Kmart, Lowes, Home Depot, starbucks, vons, albertsons, zappo's, every car dealership in town, etc... etc... etc... are all hiring.
Not saying its the greatest job, but it pays the bills while you LOOK FOR ANOTHER JOB.
So many lazy people. Get with the program people.
This could have been solved months ago if Nancy Pelosi allowed the the unspent stimulus funds to pay these benefits. Instead she kept the $30 million for the salt water marsh rat habitat in her district. Rats or people was the choice and harry just went along.
Wonder how much this is going to cost me????
@sevenhills: HOW DARE YOU. You assume people are not working because they are lazy when it is a known fact that there are not jobs for every one
@chuck321 Typical of the attitude that got us into this mess. Self centered POS. Whe are you people going to realize that we are a community and that there are good people that are actually trying to help themselves to no avail
@neiman you would turn this into a partisan issue. You are just as bad as those that govern us. I imagine you believe as the GOP that spending is okay as long as it benefits you.
You people are sick
Why work for $12-15 per hour when the government will pay $10 an hour?
Lect
There are some people that know how to milk the system and there are good people looking for work.Please do not use the word (assume).
The money should have come out of the stimulus funds.Now the Dems have more pork to buy votes.
I have no problem paying unemployment to US citizens but not to illegals.
Wolf, that's US residents and citizens. Just FYI.
Need a check -- get in a wreck?
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sevenhills
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If you think credit markets are tight and unsecured credit interest rates are high now just wait until the unemployed currently using their credit cards to "gap" their unfortunate financial situations are through with the country's lending institutions.
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Great, I am so thrilled to pay extra taxes for people to consider themselves too good for the jobs currently available. Enjoy your vacations while I work to help pay for them.
While Democrats pass yet more debt instead of abiding by Pay-Go to provide much needed help for our citizens, Reid refuses to allow E-verify to be used on all stimulus projects. Further, he refuses to take steps to crack down on employers who hire and employ illegal workers. That alone would put citizens back to work and reduce the need for UI extensions.
Even worse, he wants to give the illegals some kind of temporary status that will allow them to keep their jobs, continuing to deny employment to citizens and increasing the need for yet more extensions in the future.
REID MUST GO!
Unemployment checks should have a time limit. After the time runs out, it just becomes welfare...
Good point - they should call it WELFARE or an ENTITLEMENT HANDOUT after too long.
Summerof69:
They do have limits of unemployment payments. If I remember right it was 16 weeks for me in 12 months time. Meaning if it took you 4 weeks to find a short term job, then you out of work again after a few months. It all adds up starting with the date you first filled. After the 16 weeks it goes to the federal unemployment extension depending on if it's active at the time.
Some of the unemployed have been without benefits for 49 days now and now they have to wait possibly up to two weeks to get the money (seven to 10 days just to get a letter that says that they are eligible) then they have to process the claims and then the money. This is insane! People are starving, cars are being reposed, mortgages and rents are in arrears and getting evicted.
Also, they will probably want those to use the internet to process their claims. What happens to the ones who lost their internet service and phone service over the last 49 days because the Senators took their sweet time?
People thought Bush over spent,Obama has just started.I wish I could spend other peoples money
and get away with it.We are in deep sh?? now.
Can our kids say soup lines.
The key thing here is that most unemployed are just using the funds that their employer and they have put into the system for years and years and years. I guess those who are retired in Nevada believe that social security should be stopped after 6 months as they and their employer put funds into the fund for years and years and years. The problem is that Harry Reid used this money recklessly for years and did not keep it in the unemployment fund - see how Harry makes sure the money is there when you need it???? He used it for his own purposes and thus could not use the money the Republicans thought the workers had put into the fund. Reckless Spending - Reckless Harry - This is not a welfare program; this is just using the funds one put aside in the account because they were unfortunate Harry did not put laws on the book to protect their jobs. They lost the jobs - not because they were fired; if they were fired; there is no unemployment. They were laid off due to Harry Reid not creating a good business economy since he and Nancy Pelosi in 2007 took over the reigns.
5 years of Failed Harry Reid....
Vote him out...and by the way, he is getting his full pay when he is voted out??? go figure - the Dems just give a couple of hundred dollars to those who need it and then give themselves a full paid unemployment for life. This is welfare for Harry that must be cut - vote at the voters box and kick him and his son....way out of Nevada politics.
I see "we're hiring" signs all the time around the valley. I work full time now, but since I haven't been able to replace my roommate I am applying for part time employment. This might be off topic, but what is it about people here in the valley?? I thought the "something for nothing" mentality was rampant in Orange County until I moved here. Well, Orange County doesn't hold a candle to the level of entitled "something for nothing" attitudes here in the valley. I am amazed daily by these people I have encountered!! Perhaps that's one of the reasons for the high unemployment rate. I've always been of the mind that you do whatever you must to keep food on the table and a roof over your head.
ME2CANV
You have good values.
What a mean, insensitive group of people.
Hopefully when the time comes for you to collect social security, or, if for some unfortunate reason you lose you job, you will cheerfully and loudly proclaim your sentiments about "entitlements" and forgo these -just based on principal.
Of course, those of you who believe 2.5 million unemployed US citizens are "just lazy" wouldn't understand or sympathize -and of course, those 2.5 million unemployed brought it on themselves, right?
And of course, nothing like a disability, a layoff, or even growing older and needing more assistance than you planned for, will ever happen to you-right?
Where do all come from? Under the woodwork from one of those gated, tin canned neighborhoods you consider so special?
Give me a break.
cnev... excellent comments! I agree 100%.
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Wow, such hostility today. Lots of new people posting comments. I suspect Tea-Baggers and extreme Right-Wingers are on the attact not only in Nevada but through out the country. How many of you have been unemployed in your life time? Have you ever received unemployment benefits? Ever try raising a family or paying your bills on $400.00 per week? Of course not or you wouldnt be making your insidious comments. Just a bunch of jealous unhappy haters. The Democrats are making you all look like fools. Beating you at your own game. Its absolutely beautiful to watch. Oh..by the way...Good Luck in November! LOL
Bravo, cnev!!! I, too, agree. UNTIL THOSE YOU SPEAK OF ARE IN THIS AWFUL POSITION that millions of Americans are in - I just wish they would just shut the F up!!
Another sad thing - and those people on here wouldn't get it - with this awful heat the whole country is going thru - many many people are asking for assistance to pay their utility bills, especially the Seniors. Those nasties on here woulsdn't understand what it's like not being able to run the AC all the time because of not being able to afford the utility bill.
They should remember one thing when they start spouting off their mean words - Karma is a bitch. Are they ready for it?
JESoulsby
Those who need to file by internet and have no internet service can go to the library or to the DETR office, where there SHOULD BE computers.
They should let people work, while receiving their unemployment benefits, for six more months. Then that's it. That should help them get back on their feet.