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Unemployed people in Ohio to get retroactive help
TweetPublished: Thu, May 7, 2009 @ 1:25 p.m.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Many people getting unemployment benefits in Ohio will receive an extra payment because of a delayed raise.
The state is just now reprogramming its system that sends out unemployment checks and electronic fund transfers to reflect a $25 weekly increase approved earlier this year by the federal government. Recipients were supposed to start getting that the last week in February.
As Ohio catches up, many of its more than 346,000 residents on unemployment in recent months will receive a benefits boost in the next week or two.
The raise is retroactive, so the state will issue separate checks or transfers for up to $300, representing the accumulated increases over 10 to 12 weeks. Subsequent payments will include the $25 raise.
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It's about time. . . Ohio, especially Youngstown, (and I don't know about other cites in Ohio) has been "struggling" the "long struggle" forever or maybe since the steel mills closed and shipped the jobs overseas. We really, and I mean really, deserve this so called "boost", thus this country is finally feeling the anxieties and depressions that Youngstown has been inflicted with all along.....
this is bullcrap. i,ve been on unemployment since feb.3. i was laid off as a mill machine operator. i made parts for volvo,s semi line. what i think is funny is why as the people who paid into this system has to wait for our money. but those on welfare or s.s.i gets their money at the drop of a hat. when i applied for unemployment i had to wait nearly 3 weeks before i got my first check. but those who go in to apply for welfare get their checks instantly.