Unemployment benefits in Mich. extended, will be reduced
March 25, 2011 – 8:54 pmThe Republican governor signed the bill today.
It reduces state jobless benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks as of January. It also will allow up to 150,000 Michigan residents to continue receiving extended federal unemployment benefits they otherwise would lose by the end of the year.
Michigan’s two Democratic U.S. senators and six congressmen sent a letter to Snyder today asking him to veto the bill because it reduces state benefits.
Snyder said in a statement he signed it because he didn’t want 35,000 jobless workers to abruptly lose their unemployment checks as they would have if the measure wasn’t signed by Friday.
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