Title: Extensions would prevent unemployment benefits ending after one year
Headings: Will unemployment benefits end after a year? Extensions should prevent it
Will unemployment benefits end after a year? Extensions should prevent it
Key Points
Unemployment benefit year

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The House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package Saturday that would extend benefits through August — thereby pushing off the “benefit year” problem, according to Andrew Stettner, an unemployment expert and senior fellow at the Century Foundation. “All their attention should be trained on what’s happening in Congress,” Stettner said of workers. “ That will determine their fate.” The Senate will now consider the relief legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Democrats aim to send it to President Joe Biden’s desk by March 14, when jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed are currently set to expire. Unemployment benefit year
States generally calculate the amount of one’s weekly unemployment benefits based on work history over the past 12 to 18 months. Workers are eligible for that weekly benefit amount during bouts of joblessness over the course of a year. ( Within that annual window, workers can typically only collect state aid for a maximum of six months.)