Unemployment Insurance
With women's unemployment rate rising quickly, the Act will expand unemployment insurance (UI) coverage for jobless workers, especially women, as well as extend and increase benefits. It provides:
- One-time grants to encourage states to enact specific reforms that will eliminate barriers UI coverage for low-wage and part-time workers, workers who leave for compelling family reasons, and their dependents.
- Up to 33 weeks of extended UI benefits to workers exhausting their regular benefits.
- $25 per week increase in UI benefits through 2009.
- An additional $500 million to help states administer UI.
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