Saturday News Briefs
Unemployment benefits for 1.1 million Californians will continue uninterrupted
An estimated 1.1 million unemployed Californians have been spared losing their benefits.
Because of the deal between Congress and President Obama, which also included extending middle class tax cuts, federal unemployment benefits have been extended for two months. They had been set to end Jan. 1, 2012.
Out of the more than a million people currently certifying for Unemployment Insurance benefits in California, approximately 100,000 long-term unemployed on the last extension known as the FED-ED had faced an immediate cut-off of benefits in early January. More claimants would have run out of benefits each week thereafter