Federal budget cuts strike California’s unemployed

Sacramento Business Journal

The pain of federal budget cuts is starting to hit California workers. This week, the California Employment Development Department began mailing notices to notify jobless claimants that federal extensions of unemployment benefits will be cut by 18 percent beginning April 28. More than 400,000 unemployed Californians will be affected, according to the EDD. Most people are eligible for 26 weeks of state unemployment and an additional 47 weeks of federal extension benefits. The cuts only will affect the federal extensions without reducing the overall number of weeks that jobless workers are eligible for unemployment aid.

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