NELP: Without Extension, One Million Will Lose Unemployment Benefits In January
Just in the past week, two key Democratic leaders
in Washington expressed interesting in crafting a federal jobs package
that would likely extend federal unemployment insurance for workers who
exhaust their benefits after December 31. But they better move quickly,
as more ...
Just in the past week, two key Democratic leaders in Washington expressed interesting in crafting a federal jobs package that would likely extend federal unemployment insurance for workers who exhaust their benefits after December 31. But they better move quickly, as more than one million unemployed Americans are scheduled to lose their insurance sometime in January.
That figure comes via a new analysis by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), which has been crunching the unemployment numbers for months now. When the stimulus plan was approved last winter, those looking for work in Illinois were eligible to receive up to 53 weeks of federally-funded insurance, through the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and the Extended Benefits (EB) program, on top of the 26 weeks of state-backed benefits that are always available. The legislation President Obama signed earlier this month -- deadline glitch and all -- supplied an additional 14 weeks. But the funding for all of these federal programs expires at the end of 2009.
NELP estimates that almost 600,000 workers nationwide will lose eligibility for the next tier of benefits sometime in January. An additional 450,000 workers will exhaust their 26 weeks of states benefits. Even more frightening, the number without federal jobless benefits will balloon to nearly three million workers by March. Unless the 2009 extensions are reauthorized in some form, none of those families will be receiving any additional benefits. "Congress has less than four weeks left on its schedule to legislate this year," NELP executive director Christine Owens said in a statement, "and unless it acts to renew the unemployment provisions during this period, the clock will run out for a million workers."
Check out NELP's graph below:
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I know what you mean. I now have a call in day of Nov. 30th, which means NOT A DAMNED PENNY FOR AT LEAST 13 MORE DAYS. I don't have toothpaste or bus fare any more - what am I supposed to do? I knew we were screwed for Thanksgiving, but this is ridiculous.
that thread was running on a little too long...many of the same questions and aimless chatter over and over and over.
If nothing else these blogs are a diversion to my day.
To Carrie,
quote.
I have called the main Chicago number since last week. THEY DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING. NOTHING AND THEY ARE THE RUDEST PEOPLE I HAVE EVER TALK TO IN MY LIFE.
Try calling the Rockford office...815-395-6600
Thank you for your answer about calling Rockford. I called the Chicago office again after me venting a couple hours later. Because no one ever answers the phone in the North Aurora Office. Now I was told oh you didn't get a letter, well I don't know what to tell you. You have to go to your local office and reapply. What my benefit year isnt even up until 1/17/10. So I am going to go down there tomorrow and I bet u any money they tell me there. WE DON'T KNOW YET. WE HAVE NO INFORMATION
Thanks GW does I have to dail a 1 first when callin rockford?
You know, it used to be that I was very well versed on unemployment. Now--throw in the end of 2009 and the failure of Congress to have already dealt with the date glitch, the newest extension itself, and a lot of us reaching that new base year period--and what do you have? A MAJOR MESS.
Does anyone have ANY idea how to figure this all out, or are we just supposed to sit here and let the IDES incompetents give us wrong info after wrong info, only to find out that one day, we're suddenly penniless? Why hasn't IDES posted anything new? They did the first day after Obama signed the bill...and then they yanked it from the site (or at least I don't see it anymore--it had been on the home page).
I'm on Tier II. My Tier II ends second week in Dec. I already passed my base year. I didn't qualify for a new claim. My original payments continued. What happens when I certify my last Tier II payment on Dec. 16? Does it go to the new extension and then suddenly stop if Congress doesn't legislate a new date? Or does it keep going? And then does it go into January and I get it, and then I get EB (if it's still needed HAHAHAHA...what a joke)?
Does anyone have a clue or should I spend another few weeks trying to figure it all out so I can explain it to my friends--since IDES does such a wonderful job of leaving us all in the dark?
If you are currently on Tier 2 and have, or will, exhaust your EUC prior to the end of 2009, then you are eligible for this extension, and you will get a minimum of 14 weeks. You will continue to collect all 14 weeks on into 2010 until your 14 weeks expire.
Come on over to the the other forum link:
http://progressillinois.com/2009/11/17/hoyer-ui-extension-jobs-bill
Help...Please..My 26 week uc will exhaust on Dec.17 and my certification day will be Dec. 29 Will I qualify for tier 2 EUC
The information from GA is indicating that EUC claim must be started prior to Dec. 26 deadline.The people at the Chicago office said not to worry I would be ok. What say you.
Do they automatically start my tier 2 claim on the Dec 17 exhaust date or do they start the claim on my Dec.29 certification date.
there is an app that must be filled out to receive EUC after exhausting your reg. benefits. at least i know i had to fill one out.
they might send you one early if you request it or maybe you can go pick one up.
i don't think you can be approved for EUC until all of your reg bens are gone
hopefully they'll get some legislation passed to extend this
when I called back again yesterday for the 3rd time to the Chicago Office. She was rude as can be but this time this person did ask me for my SS# and she said I have to go down there and apply for EUC. I asked her why that is not what I have been told 50 other times. She said there is a paper that has to be filled out. So I am going down to the North Aurora Office now. It just BLOWS MY MIND HOW RUDE THESE PEOPLE ARE. I will let you know at least what they tell me.
IDES is messed up.
I went there yesterday for an interview about claiming a dependant.
She asked if i had any other questions.
I did, about when i should call in because i had conflicting letters saying 16th for EB (but i was exhausted) and got a letter on that day to call for EUB on the 23rd.
She gave me a form to fill out and said someone will call me in.
I waited there for 1 1/2 hours.
When i got called in the lady is like " why are you even here?"
Hey i had a question i was given this and said to wait.
I knew my benefits had run out...i explained that.
the 2nd lady said i shouldnt have had to wait because my question could have been answered in one phrase. "Call in on the 23rd for the new program" I shouldnt have been waiting for 1 1/2 hours for NOTHING!!!!
IDES is really messed up GW!!
I went to the Aurora office today and I had to wait so long I fell asleep.When I wokeded up, I couldn't find my pensil to fill out the paperwork so I had to wait another hour to borrow a pen from one of the rude workers!!
Has anyone else not received their extension letter yet?
My benefits and benefit year ended Sept 15, 2009. I have exhausted all benefits. I live in CA now but have been receiving my benefits from Il.
Thanks
Anyone have any idea's about my claim. benefit year began 11/2/08 i am currently on tier 2 my last claim week is suppose to be the week of 12/21/09-12/27/09 which from what i have read i would just qualify for tier 3. my question is due to them paying tier 3 by adding a week to tier 2 would make my last tier 2 claim week 12/27/09-1/3/10 which would make me miss the 12/26/09 deadline by 1 week because they added a week to tier 2. any help please.
thanks
I have exhausted all my unemployment benefits in mid August of 2009. I have been waiting since then for this new unemployment benefit extension while still looking for work of course. When the new extension was passed this November, two days later, I received a letter from IDES claiming that I was over paid Last July of 2008. There claim was that I worked that month, but even though I worked I called IDES to certify for benefits anyway. That claim is totally false! On that same week I received another letter stating that I had been set up for a telephone interview for November 4, 2009, and to expect a call around 11:00 A.M. that day. Well, I waited the entire day, and NO CALL FROM IDES. Guess what? Two days later after that, I received a letter stating that a decision had been made saying that I was found to be at fault and that I had to pay the overpayment back, and on top of that, that I also had commited fraud, because I had not reported my earnings while I certified for the month of July and August of 2008. Here's the thing: I never called IDES to certify on the period they mentioned because of the very facted that I did work that period. I had started working on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. My certification call date was for the day before that, which was for Monday, July 21, 2008, but since I had been interviewed several times a few days before that calling date, I never bothered to call. I was then laid off on August 28, 2008. Short time working there, yes. But when I went in early September of 2008 to see if I qualified to receive unemployment benefits using the latest job that I had, the person there said that I did needed to have worked at least 30 working days, but that I fell just two days short, which meant of course, no unemployment benefits. At the end of the month of September while I was looking through all the junk mail I had, I found the UI claimant certification form that I had forgotten that I had that was from July of 2008. I then went in early October of 2008 back to the local unemployment office and spoke to a different person then from my last visit and asked him that if it was still possible to receive unemployment benefits from the letter that I had found and showed to him. He then said yes, but he asked that why did I not come in sooner to the office to open up the claim. I then told him that I did'nt because I had worked on the months of July and August of 2008. He then told me that he was going to re-instate me back into the system, and that he would also pay me from the beginning of the original call in date. I then asked him if this would not affect me in any way because of the fact that I did work the period stated above. He said; NO.
To make a long story short, I know that I have made it long but I just wanted all of you to know my situation, but a year later, this situation has affected me. I have already filed for an appeal, as of now, no information from IDES at all. No letters sent, no phone calls from them, nothing. Now that I have been in desperate need of this new unemployment extension, now I don't even know if will be allowed to qualify for the new extension, because of errors made by the local IDES workers, not myself! I have no money, no bank account, just relying on food stamps to eat but no money to pay bills, or even for gas to fill up my car with to look for work, no rent money, and no even Public Aid would help me! Does anybody out there know if I will qulaify for the EUC extension even though this crazy situation has me all tied up in knots?
This is Shorty again; I just wanted to say that I am so angry by their quick decision on basically clasifying me as a fraudulant person without even giving me that chance to defend my self! On my appeal letter that I sent to IDES, I wrote that I felt that there decision could have been pre-determined well before I was scheduled for the telephone interview. Maybe that is why they never called me at all. I think that most, not all of the IDES workers need to take a long training course on how the system really works, and while their at it; teach them on "HOW TO BEHAVE LIKE REAL HUMAN BEINGS". Not like pre-programmed humanoids. Over these past two years, I have been to the local Chicago IDES office so many times, that I might as well live there! And it's always the same thing. You know; two hours or more of waiting just to ask a question that takes less than two minutes to answer, and leave the office not satisfied with their goofy answers. But all I can do now, just like all of you that are currently unemployed like myself, is to pray and hope for a miracle! The worlds most corrupted country, and state has once again, shown it's true colors! Listen up everyone; the real unemployment rate is around 18.3%, not 9.8% and rising like the media states it is. Don't beleive the media at all, just look around you; I'm sure that all of you have eyes to see. This is going to be a rough one for all of us that are unemployed for the next two years, that's right two more years! So, Congress, and the Senate better get their act together fast. But as for the wealthy working people goes; no matter how much money, fancy cars, and houses you own, when you die, you die a poor person in the EYES OF THE ALL MIGHTY GOD, because you cannot take anything with you when you die! Most of you rich people would rather put on a fur coat for their dogs than help out a homeless person. Are all of you rich people "FREE MASONS", or what? But, we, we the currently unemployed are not not dumb people, just unemployed people that are in desperate need of real jobs, not short term jobs, but the ones that you can really pay off all of your debts, and have that nice bank account, and just maybe a new car. Unlike myself; my car is already 12 years old. I have owned it for nine years, and is now in need of many repairs. But, with what money? Just a thought from a frustrated unemployed man with wife and two children.
AMEN I hear ya!!!!
Dont knock the free masons tho. My grandfather was one and he was just a regular working Joe at a lock factory as a machinist.he was far from rich.
starting your claim by 12/26...it is written everwhere on official state websites, and in the bill itself. why do you ask questions here, most of the answers are misleading...you should try contacting you emp. ofc. all they can say is no and not give false expectations.
shorty - you got a lot of time on your hands (long winded rant) your self pacifying stories are just that 'yours' not even entertaining reading.
Nobody should have any ideas abount anyone's claim...thats beween you and the emply. ofc. The information here is usually misleading and incomplete at best.
I cantz believeses how RUDE some peolpleses can be!
about as rude as most of these comments are senseless.
I makes alllot of senses when I comments!
Youalles donts has to be meen.
I just wishes I can fix my problem with IDESs.
They kepts me wainin so long yesterdayes I fells asleep.
do you feel better after posting on here knowing nobody is interested.
I does feelss better cuz any hopes is good hopes.
You donts care but otherses does wnats to heer.
My hopes is high cuz i thinks IDES will fix my claims.
good you keep hoping for that...it might work out. But I doubt anyone on this site will make a difference in your case. ask IDES and forget the people on here you'll be in for a let down if you don't.
hedonistic, you sure waste a lot of time here directing people to help themselves.
since no one on this site makes a diff, why do you keep trying?
give it a rest. we all already your an ass. no need to keep trying to prove it.
Hedonistic is justs keepsin it real...actin rude but meenins
wells. We alls have issueses with the systemses. I apprecciattes
his tryin to helpses me deals with dis messes.
I gonna doos whats I gotsta doos as we alls gonna. We aint gettin
muchs done actin angry an alls. I likes advise en suches.
if you read up...there are 2 Carries.... one of them posts like a human. the other posts crap.
#1 when I called back again yesterday for the 3rd time to the Chicago Office. She was rude as can be but this time this person did ask me for my SS# and she said I have to go down there and apply for EUC. I asked her why that is not what I have been told 50 other times. She said there is a paper that has to be filled out. So I am going down to the North Aurora Office now. It just BLOWS MY MIND HOW RUDE THESE PEOPLE ARE. I will let you know at least what they tell me.
#2Hedonistic is justs keepsin it real...actin rude but meenins
wells. We alls have issueses with the systemses. I apprecciattes
his tryin to helpses me deals with dis messes.
I gonna doos whats I gotsta doos as we alls gonna. We aint gettin
muchs done actin angry an alls. I likes advise en suches.
Thanks GW!
I don't offer advice or seek it from this board or any others.
And they don't make a difference, I have noticed over the last few weeks many of the of posters have disappeared so thats telling me that they wised up and got busy for themselves. I think they discovered that a lot of this was misinformation and they figured they might actually better of putting in their own work.
I would have to disagree with you hedonistic. I have had great advice and have ran into many helpful posters on this site.
That being said I have a question someone might be able to answer......
I'm worried about this "glitch". My re-filing date to re-new my unemployment benefits is in January. Will I get this extension in full?
so..then....isn't it time for you to get busy???
you're the biggest waste of time here.
Its advice or answers to questions you get very easily for yourself...if this stuff is that important it should not be risked to speculation or how they think it will go.
are you just speculating on how you think this goes?
on a mission to deblog the world. nice. have fun with that.
I'm commenting on the this blog that is full of speculation and what "would you do or what to you think" babble.
I'm beginning to see how some situations will never improve when this site is mistaken as a resource.
Yeah. I know. You keep doing it over and over and over again.
Anything else to add?
I mean, beside the fact the world is ending because you think people rely on this site as a source.......
Talk about someone with nothing better to do.
"Yeah. I know. You keep doing it over and over and over again.
Anything else to add?
I mean, beside the fact the world is ending because you think people rely on this site as a source.......
Talk about someone with nothing better to do."
HUH -- that is babble!!
if the shoe fits........
hedonistic,
And you are NOT wasting space here because .......
You're offerings are so insightful? On topic? Helpful? Polite?
And you are more together and on top of things because you are not
wasting time sniping at people on-line because you have better things to do???????
Obviously :)
You'll needses to stops been means at hatin each otheres!!
We are alls hurtines over this here messes!
Its not about being naughty or nice. Hedo needs to take a chill pill and find something better to do with their time than railing on unemployed people who come here to share stories.
That he/she seems to think there is something wrong with that is absolutely asinine.
hedonistic,
Didn't want you to miss my reply above. :)
Anyone on here have info about Calif? This is a good site and haven't found one like it specific to Calif.
this is from the calif site in case you have not seen it.
"On Friday, November 6, 2009, President Obama signed new federal legislation making further unemployment extension benefits available. A total of up to 14 more weeks of benefits are possible for unemployed workers who have run out of all available benefits, or could do so by the end of the year. There is also the potential for 6 more weeks of benefits being added for a total of up to 20 weeks if Congress takes further action and extends filing deadlines beyond the end of the year.
EDD has identified an estimated 285,000 people in California who could be eligible for these new benefits. Approximately 100,000 of those people have already exhausted all available benefits and will be mailed notices this week advising them of their potential eligibility. The rest of these claimants will be receiving messages on their last unemployment benefit check they get from their current federal extension.
The first eligible week for the new benefits is the week starting Sunday, November 8, 2009. Because the new extension is not retroactive, it does not apply to any weeks of unemployment prior to the enactment date of November 8.
The new extensions passed by Congress are complex and are a challenge for states to administer. The program adds:
One week of benefits to the second federal extension already available in California,
Thirteen weeks in a third extension or third tier extension for states with an unemployment rate of at least 6 percent, and
Six weeks of benefits in a fourth extension or fourth tier extension for states with an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent or higher.
EDD is aggressively working to finish the necessary programming so the new extension claims can be filed and paid. However, due to the complexity, it’s estimated the programming will take several weeks to complete.
There is currently no need to contact EDD. Once programming is in place, we will follow up with further instructions and automatically file the extensions for as many of our clients as possible. EDD will file the new extended benefit claims effective November 8, 2009, for those who are eligible. We may also need to contact some clients and request further information. Please watch this Web site for further updates"
You know, I hear all of the whining and complaining about not having any money to pay for necessities, etc. And I truly understand. However, where were all of you people years ago when you should have been preparing and saving for situations like this if/when they would happen?
I know. Many of you were spending every last nickle on a new car, new house, nice clothers, vacations, etc.
Until you learn to PAY YOURSELF FIRST when you are receiving an income, you will be in the same boat in the future. Learn to save for these times, will ya?
Stop your whining and crying. You don't understand jack. Until you understand each persons' plight, slither back under your rock until you have something real to say.
Donkey.
Anyone from Indiana that knows whats going on? Today we were supposed to file 2 weeks of job searches, but I do not have an area to file the weekly vouchers. I have tried calling the unemployment office, but can't get through. Anyone in Indiana with the same problem?
From my standpoint, I won't crack on the unemployed, but I will comment on people who think their situation is unique and think soliciting bad advice is better that hearing the truth. That indiana question is just begging for a misleading answer. Keep calling is the answer. Putting your own work in is the only answer!
I think we get that already. Comment away. Although NOBODY cares what you have to say.
Sounds like babble to me, hedo.
Hedonistic,
Are you unemployed? If not why are you on this site?
Great -- I'm glad you're finally getting it!
Maybe, but its looks to me that some posters have moved on -- perhaps they ginally got it!
just a diversion my unemployed peeps.
Yes. Great. Now, as soon as YOU get it, it will all be good.
I can't speak for everyone, but when it comes to your "peeps", count me wayyyyyyy out.
I am in California, My Unemployment ended in Mid October, and I havent gotten anything from the EDD yet.
Today on 11.24.09 I still havent seen anything in the mail.
On the EDD website it said that people in California will be mailed notices after 11-18-09 but I havent gotten anything in the mail.
Are any of you in California? Have any of you gotten notices in the mail? Please post on here, thanks
Thanks hamburgerhelper, I have been checking the Cal EDD site. I was just wondering if anyone had anything new.
Sam N, where did it say mailings starting after 11/18? From what I gathered they said it would take them several (3) weeks to get things going, which would be about the 11/27. I was hoping that someone may have heard something.
Has anyone from Calif. gotten through on the phone?
A suggestion .....
When you see the name hedonistic. Skip it! Will drive him nuts!!
Or any other negative poster. Who needs it.
FYI for anyone living in Georgia.
The Department began mailing notices on November 19, 2009. The notices provided instructions on how to apply for these additional extended benefits. The first payable week is the week of November 8-14, 2009. Payment(s) will be released on December 11, 2009, for individuals meeting all the eligibility requirements.
It won't bother me. As posters move on that means they finally stopped believing what was being put out, or became frustated with the tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear advice, which is misleading and risky.
I got a deposit of 2 weeks today under the new extension
I haven't seen anything similar to what I'm going through, so any input is appreciated. My benefit year ended 11/09/09. I recieved pwk stating a new claim wouldbe entered for me, not to report to the office. Next thing, I receive notice that I'm ineligible for regular benrfits because I have not earned enough! I'm unemployed, isn't that the point?
Assuming that usual a govt. agency has it's head up it's butt, I called in to certify my benefits on my usual every-other-Monday day, this past Monday and it went through. I verified that there are funds in my "account". But then when I theck Teleserve to find out when I'm being paid I get a message that nothing has been paid and I may be ineligable. I'm going down to the office Friday - with a book, bottle of water and patience - and will try to sort this out.
But WTF of course I didn't earn a lot of money this year. I have started a part-time job, but swear to god I'm looking but cannot find.
Any ideas, folks?
Tks,
Beej
Chicago ,IL
beej in Chicago
You will find much more useful and professional suggestions regarding UIC benefits if you simply move over to this thread provided below.
http://progressillinois.com/2009/11/17/hoyer-ui-extension-jobs-bill
Yes, come on over to this thread provided below, where you can find professional solutions with uplifting advise from the much revered,
(Unemployed_Troll).
http://progressillinois.com/2009/11/17/hoyer-ui-extension-jobs-bill
Fortunately....but unfortunately, I am new to this extension of unemployment benefits. Like many others, after working for the same company for 10 years, I was laid off on June 19th and filed for benefits on the next business day June 22nd. I received my first unemployment benefits payment on July 10th.
After calculating 26 weeks, I think my benefits end on January 1st. From what I read on the internet, I will not be able to get the extension the President just signed early this month. If I am wrong, please let me know? If this is the case and I don't get the extension the President signed, is there any other way I can apply for an extension. I do live in Illinois.
Thanks for your help.
You should get IL state EB benefits.
I dont think there is a time deadline on that.
Best to call the office on that one.
everyone is confused on the end of year date for federal EUC
Yes totoally screwed for Thanksgiving the Department claims it is the Federal Reserve however people on other forms of benefits from the state seem to be able to receive their benefits prior to such a closure of the banks. I wonder if the President who is trying to help the unemployed with extension knows about this unfair and depressing delay
Hey Morgan M. Fletcher, I read what you had to say, and yes I my self am screwed for the Thanksgiving holiday, and possibly more. If it is true that IDES is processing everyone alphabetically, than I think that I'm really screwed, because my last name begins with the letter "D". But with me though, it's much worse because I was audited by IDES two days after Obama signed the latest unemployment extension into law. They claim that I commited fraud by not reporting earnings eventhough I was working. This claim is totally false! So now after sending my appeal letter to them and waiting to see what the result is, I now wonder if I will ever receive the extension. This is a blow to my mind. Just what I did not need! These guys at IDES are totally mind sick! Most of them don't know what they are doing.
SHORTY,
Your message was unclear regarding if you worked or, didn’t work while trying to certify.
If an audit has been initiated changeling your claim of no income for that certifying period, IDES can investigate.
The State/s have the power to check banking records to support their case. (Heads-up).
Hello Morgan M. Fletcher, it's Shorty again. Just following up on what you wrote regarding certifying.
This is what really happened. The reason why that I received the IDES audit was because they claim that I called to collect unemployment benefits during the period of July 22, 2008 till August 28, 2008 even though I was working. That's not true because on July 11, 2008, I received a new certification claimant form with the new call date of: Monday, July 21, 2008. But here's what happened after that. On the Thursday, July 17, 2008 I received a call from a company and they asked me to come in for an interview for Friday, July 18, 2008. So, I did. They then told me if anymore interviews were needed, that they would call me later on that same day. Well they did just that. Now the second interview was for Monday July 21, 2008. This is the same date that I was to call to certify for benefits. I then went to the second interview. When done they basically said that it was down to two people, myself and someone else. If they decided on me they would call me later on on the same day. Well I got that call to come in to start working on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Since I was now to start working on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, I never bothered to call to certify for benefits at all because of the very fact that I now had a new job. On August 28, 2008 I was laid off. Short time on the job, yes, but it did help. On the first week of September I went down to the local unemployment office in Chicago and applied to see if I could collect benefits with the latest job that I had worked. The person there then asked me if I had worked 30 monday thru friday working days. I counted the days, and it turns out that I was 2 days short. He then said that I did not qualify. I then went home and kept on looking for work. One day at the end of the month I decided to go through all of the junk mail that I had. In that junk mail I discovered that claimant cerification form that I received back in July, 2008. In the first week of October, 2008, I went back to the unemployment office and asked the person at the reception desk if it was still possible for me to receive unemployment benefits with the claimant form that I showed him. He looked at it and then said yes. But then he asked me why did I not come to the office sooner. I told him because that I did not because I was working From July 22, thru August 28, 2008. I also told him that I had come to the office before to see if I could collect unemployment with the latest job that I had, but that the other person there said that I did not qualify because I did not have enough days worked. This person told me that he was going to put me back into the system and that he was going to pay me from the beginning of the call date period. I then asked him if this would not be bad for me because of the fact that I did work during the months of July, and August, 2008. He then said "NO". He then told me to call on the following Monday to certify. I did just that but got as far as entering my social security number and PIN. The message said that I was to go back to the unemployment office as soon as possible. I did just that. When I went there I spoke to the same person as before but this time he asked me to go to the back and talk to another person. When he looked at his computer he said that I had nothing comming to me. I told him that if that was true, then why did the other person say that I was going to receive benefits. He then said: "I don't know what computer he was looking." I then got up and went towards the front of the office when I noticed that the person who had taken care of me had just gone to his desk. I then went to him and told him what the other person said. He told me to sit while he looked over the situation. He then said that someone had taken me out of the system but that he was going to re-instate me back into the system. To make a long story short because I know that it already is; I began to receive benefits ever since but ran out of all the extensions in mid-August of 2009. I have been hoping for some good news, but now that I have this appeal going on, I don't know what to do next. So now you know. I did not call to certify like IDES claims. So if any mistakes were made, it was on there part, not mine.
This thread is now closed. You can find our most recent post on the unemployment benefits extension here:
http://progressillinois.com/2009/11/30/ui-benefits-jobs-summit
Moderator: IMO I don't think the previous thread should be shut down especially since those of us who HAVEN'T received any of the 13 weeks yet. I'm more concerned with getting the EUC going and thats not until week of 11/22nd, then I am concerned about the 6 weeks.