The End of Unemployment Benefits: 5 Things to Know

if finish 99 week unamployment benefits and still have no job what can you do

fana of NY 7:43PM April 24, 2010

To Maria / Ca

I went through the same thing in NY. Went to DOL to apply for T599 ( 26 week extension for full time student who is trying to obtain training in a new field of industry. I worked in EXPORT and that industry is no where close to recovering) The DOL told me I had to make appt with Career Counseler. Career counseler told me there was a 6 month wait. 6 Months later I was told that the T599 had to be applied to withing 15 days of being laid off.

Now I am enrolled full time in school ( at night) on a Student Loan, with no t599 extension. If I Drop out I have to start paying back 10,000.00 loan. ha ha ha.. with no job .. I had hoped to get the last extension, which would have gotten be through the end of this semester but...

I missed the last extension for unemployment because I was laid off on April 15 2009,and the extension was only for those laid off prior to April 6 2009. If millions of people have not been able to get work in a year and 1/2 how am I expected to in 9 months.

So as it stands now, I will have no income in 1 week. I only hope that my home doesnt go into forclosure until after May - so that I can finish the semester and delay payback of student loan for 6 months.

Good luck to you.

Screwed in NY of NY 12:50PM January 30, 2010

We must admit, this is so much the fault of the administration, and not the Obama administration. Look to the Bush administration and all the Senators and Congressman whom stoob by over the last 10 years while American Jobs continued to go overseas. Imagine all the Call Centers that are now in India, Canada etc. These were our (American) jobs. Our government just held their hands and collected our tax dollars, while the largeest corporations took American jobs overseas. The very corporations that we are currently bailed out with Trillions of Tax payers dollars, moved hundreds of thousands of jobs to foreign countries. They did it in the context of competing globally, yep we are competing globally now, not just to survive as a nation, but most of the nation is competing to eat, to keep our homes etc.

Have you called any of the major credit bureauss Equifax, Trans Union Experian. These companies control our credit reports ie they have our very existance in their hands. Yet all of them have moved their call centers and service centers overseas, mostly India. How did our government allow a US Corporation with such vital information as our DOB, SS#, Names, Address, Family history etc in the hands of a foreign country like India. I was outraged when I called to get a copy of my credit report and the phone was answered in India. To make it worse, this person had the nerve to be rude.

These were our jobs, now in China, India and other developing nations. China and India has the fastest growing middle class and wealthy in the world. China now has more millionnaires than the US. Again these were our Jobs that the big corporations we supported and were/are loyal to. HP, IBM, Compaq, Intel, many of the Pharmicutical companies, manufacturing companies have moved our jobs to foreign countires for Cheap labor. The US government had plenty of opporunities to stop this. They could have taxed them more for if products were manufactured oversea and imported into the US and sold. They could have changed the tariffs. We don't really export anything now we simply import everything . Products like clothing , shoers, household items are all manufactured by American companies that pay wages, no benefits to foreigners, yet they import these products and expect us to buy them, while they get rich on the margins and Americans go into deth and starvation.

The economics of all this has to eventually take a toll on Americans. Yes If you continue to manufacture products overseas taking the labor market overseas, who is this country will have a job to pay for the products.

Melissa Denbo of TX 11:39AM January 18, 2010

I live in florida with am unemployment rate of almost 11% my unemployment is ending right after dec 31 in which I am disqualified from recieving anymore benefits. I enrolled in school and recently disinrolled because i was owing more with the loans that would put me even more behind. I have been focusing on finding work which is the hardest , i have been rejected in all the qualifing areas or just not even considered. I am very worried about loosing my home and not being able to put food on the table, I am so discouraged and dont know what to do, or where to look. I am desperate for an extension of some sort and soon, because my benefits will end jan6th which is only a portion of the % i usually recieve, help i am desperate. The president said he wanted mothers to go to school , but that is not a reality for me as now i have more bills and no degree as it costs more to go an i have no job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!What to do???

marie of FL 2:48PM December 15, 2009