{"id":528946,"date":"2010-04-15T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82486"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:13:41","slug":"senate-passes-short-term-unemployment-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528946","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Short-Term Unemployment Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 59 to 38 on final passage. Three Republicans &#8212; Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine) and George Voinovich (Ohio) &#8212; joined every voting Democrat in favor of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which now moves to the House, will provide a two-month cushion for unemployed workers to access federal unemployment benefits after their 26 weeks of state benefits have expired. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77922\/unemployment-extension-does-not-create-additional-benefits\" >It does not create an additional tier of federal benefits for those at the last level of federal help<\/a>.<span id=\"more-82486\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deadline for filing for additional benefits was April 5. The legislation passed today, which is retroactive to that date, extends the filing deadline to June 2.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also extends COBRA health subsidies and delays a pay cut for Medicare doctors. The $18 billion cost was not offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 59 to 38 on final passage. Three Republicans &#8212; Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine) and George Voinovich (Ohio) &#8212; joined every voting Democrat in favor of the proposal. The bill, which now moves to the House, will provide a two-month cushion for unemployed workers to access federal unemployment benefits after their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}