Unemployment Benefits Expire: Your 5 Biggest Questions Answered

This is a sad situation, I was unemloyed for 9 months before i founda decent job and i had to be on top of things,Resumes online is a joke, job fairs are a joke, you have to go in the field to get a job because your resume get cluttered with 100's of others and lost. i was getting broke on unemploment after i cashed in my 401k. Now with no benefits for others, 1 check is a major set back for anybody on unemployment. It's gonna hit the fan ifthis bill isn't pass.
(Prstitution,Theft, Robbery, Forgery, and maybe murder if their stomach growl loud enough !

i'm glad the budget wasn't an issue when scott browns family needed help when he was young

Tisk tisk...I've been reading the comments here and find many like those posted by haze, Gary or Tracy, and nivek75 to be very insensitive. It is quite apparent that you or a loved are not in this unfortunate situation and cannot empathize with us "unemployed folks". We are not lazy, or deadbeats, or freeloading off the system as you mistakenly assume. Many like myself are professional, hardworking,educated, and mere survivors of this bad economy. I've been working since the age of 16, am a professional, have a college degree from a good university, and now find myself unemployed and cannot find employment because I am "overqualified". Oh, and FYI, I am on week 28 and never signed up in the first place to be on this 99 week train ride which you seem to think is all fun and games. I would much rather be working and receiving my previous paycheck, because honestly, who can live on 40% of their previous income? But actually no, it might be less, since it has been failed to mention that we unemployed receiving "benefits" still pay federal income tax from our "income". Be grateful and count your lucky stars you are not in the same boat or "train ride" with us. I do, however, now have more time to read interesting articles and comment to posts where some are ill-informed.

So 1.2 million hard-working americans lose their unemployment benefits in June and 2 millions in July. How are they going to pay the mounting bills? How do they pay rent or mortgage, utilities, put food on the table to feed their families? Do you want to drive unfortunate displaced workers to insanity?
Who cares about budget deficits when you cannot put food on the table?
Tell the politicians who voted against jobless benefits not to eat when hungry and donate the meal money to the budget deficits.
Unemployed workers are hard-working americans who cannot donate millions to politicians like the rich people but they can vote and will NOT forget how they were mistreated by heartless republicans in times of need.

This has nothing to do with helping people the Republicans are only trying to make this President look bad at any COST. RIGHT has no place when you hate something or someone. You just GET them, You hurt Millions to get one.This comes from people who SPENT money like it was no tomorrow. You can tell that by the WAY that party has VOTED in the pass for things that help the people hold on too the normal things in life. When you have those who don't worry about how to pay the rent, buy gas,buy food,buy shoes, medicine the BASIC things in life this is what you get. Those Senators who VOTED NO are Well Taken Care of, Their Pay check will continue "NO MATTER What", along with the Money they Get from others. When things start getting WORST watch them BLAME, The President. GOD BLESS, Bro CES

I feel so bad for all the people losing there income. Just think of the forclosures this will happen. I used to be so proud to be an American but I'm not anymore. How about we get out of that silly war and bring all that money back home.

Instead of the TEA Party (Republican Party in sheeps cloths) we should start the LIBERTY Party and get rid of the TEA Party!

This is not a free train ride for the unemployed!
The unemployed are paying dearly so contrary to the "American Dream".

I know people that are on disability SS and there is nothing wrong with them. They could work just like you and me. I even called to report some of them and they don't want to hear about it. One of them only paid into the system for maybe 7 years and he gets 700.00 a month. I have been working for 40 years and my unemployment is all done. I would rather be working and paying my share like I always but when I apply for a job I never hear from them again. I might have to move out of my comfort zone and try to get a job in another state. This government is only out for certain people not the little guy.

What is stupid about this is that the Republicans offered a stand alone bill that would have extended benefits and taken the money from the stimulus money that hasn't been spent. This would have been deficit neutral (not adding to the national debt as the money has already been set aside).

The Democrats refused to pull out unemployment benefits from a gaggle of this, that and other stuff that had nothing to do with unemployment benefits but would have add another 60 to 80 billion dollars of debt.

We have already the money sitting there....why won't the Democrats free it up? What was in those 429 pages (unemployment only took up a small percentage of those pages) that the Democrats couldn't live without?

Time to write your Congressman and ask for a stand alone Unemployment Benefits bill paid for out of the unused stimulus bill. Paying unemployment will save more jobs (when the benefits are spent) than most of the other programs that came out of the stimulus bill.