How $25 Extra in Unemployment Benefits is Hurting Some

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Does anyone have a clue if I have to add this extra $25.00 of unemployment stimulus to my taxable income for 2010? I have not yet received a form to let me know and I want to file my taxes.

Karolee Pierson of NJ 7:38AM January 27, 2011

the 25.00 you get as a federal stimulus payment is EXEMPT as income if you are on food stamps.

cindy of TX 12:28AM August 10, 2010

The bill was passed by Congress. Obama could have just not signed the bill. I am getting enough money from unemployment I don't qualify or need food stamps. The shame is the states that pay so little that one actually has to apply for food stamps. And for the attacks on Democrats you definitely betray your ignorance. The economy is where it is because of Republicans and so called conservative Democrats who took financial controls off investment banks and regulation failing all of us under the Bush Administration. It really has more to do with human nature. People will do what they can get away with

W of CA 9:15PM January 25, 2010

we got change allright you earn $50k and under you are screwed, im laidoff after 10years i will never vote dem again ever and i mean it never.

mike kitchura of PA 10:43AM January 04, 2010

Obama's stimulus payment is joke! I am too ineligible for foodstamps due to obama's stimulus on my gross ( before taxes) What a sneaky little fellow you are obamba You pulled the wool over our eyes but people are getting to the person
you really are.

ginger of FL 6:26PM November 09, 2009

Hurry up and get this money out there regardless of who it hurts?! If I knew he'd be as lazy and half ass do a job I'd never put him in there. What good is this stupid stimulus if you give me $100 and I have to sacrifice $300 for a net loss of $200?? What kind of math is that? Did he flunk algebra? Oh, he's taking us back to the motherland. From what I've read, that's what they do there. I'm staying in this screwed up country just long enough for one more election if I can help it. If this doesn't improve, my vote is one less he'll have and i've NEVER missed an election since my 18th birthday NOT EVEN PRIMARIES!!

Terri of PA 6:35PM November 02, 2009

Check with your county and refer to this letter: CDHS Letter 09-29 April 2009 (http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/medi-cal/eligibility/Documents/c09-22.pdf). "The purpose of this letter is to inform counties that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Division B, Title II, Section 2002 (h) provides for a Federal Stimulus increase to both regular and extended nemployment Benefits by $25 a week.The increases will begin with the week of February 22, 2009, for both new and existing claims. The monthly equivalent to the $25 weekly increase shall be exempt income
and, as such, shall not be considered for purposes of determining Medi-Cal eligibility or share-of-cost (SOC).

Lisa Maiuro of CA 10:23PM October 24, 2009

I had a job for over 9 years in the hotel industry, and in December of 2008 was laid off. I was told it was because of lower average occupancy at the property I worked for - in other words, travelling was down because of the recession. I applied for California's MediCal program. I went on unemployment and applied for SNAP (food stamps) and MediCal. At first, I was eligible for both programs. When the stimulus program passed, I started receiving an extra $100.00 a month through my unemployment. However, my share of cost for medical services (I am a high blood pressure patient) went up by $100.00 a month, and my food stamp allotment decresed as well. I was able to make ends meet better before the stimulus than after. And I have no option to refuse the $100.00 per month.
This is just plain unfair. And apprently there is nothing I can do about it. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

John of CA 2:09PM July 09, 2009

I am 55 years old and I have worked since I was 17. In November my husband and I were both laid off. He has never missed a day of work. They brought in a young foreigner to take over and he replaced my husband with 6 young men. Of course my husband was not making that much to be replaced with that many foreigners or even Americans. We were lucky enough to have kept our house in Texas and our daughters moved us back. We qualified for food stamps, we were so embarresed to ask for help. The stimulas 25.00 put us over the top and we lost 362.00 in food for 100.00. Now I can not get medical help because we own a 2002 truck, trying to keep our 500.00 a month mortgage house and unemployment pays too much for any type of help. I was sent home with a blood pressure of 225/108, need rotary cuff tear surgery and was told not to come back without money, it was a county hospital. So the 25.00 a week, I am thankfull for but it has done so much harm. Obama is not getting it, and he thinks we do not get it. The long picture I will never see, I won't be around.

jean wilson of TX 2:29PM July 04, 2009

Every time a democrat gets in the Whitehouse I hurt..
I am on unemployment also and I now have to go beg for food..
So Democrats are not the party for the poor..
They create more poor people.....
Think about that....

Brenda of FL 5:01PM July 02, 2009