The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill containing an amendment that would renew unemployment insurance benefits to the long-term unemployed. Days later, Gov. Dannel Malloy and the Connecticut House delegation wrote a letter to federal officials calling for a vote on the legislation.
The Connecticut House delegation sent Speaker of the House John Boehner a letter negating his statement about how “unworkable” the extension of emergency unemployment compensation would be for the states, according to a press release.
The letter called for a vote on the Senate-passed extension before the two-week district work period. House Republican leaders have yet to hold a vote on the issue.
Malloy sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez addressing his support for the emergency unemployment compensation extension. In his letter, he said the “failure to act now will only do further harm to our long-term unemployed and the broader U.S. economy.”
The unemployment insurance benefits, which expired in December, has left more than 48,000 people in Connecticut uncertain about their future.
Letter from the Connecticut House delegation to Speaker Boehner
Letter from Gov. Malloy to Secretary Perez on EUC legislation
I have been actively searching for employment during and after receiving unemployment and to date have been unsuccessful in landing a job. Most jobs require reliable transportation and because of the cut off of unemployment my car was repossessed. How can I apply for employment if I’m unable to gain access to a computer or travel to an employment center? How can I receive phone calls or emails from jobs if I can’t pay my bill? This delay in the voting process is hurting the very people you are encouraging to get employment. It’s not that we are lazy people things happen in life that’s out of our control and if our Government continues to fail us what more can we do? Most of us pay taxes with our unemployment but that’s not good enough!!!!!! Please vote on this issue before recess and allow the millions of affected people to gain their hope and lives back.
If they pass this, me and my two sons will be looking for a place to live, come end of month. I am 31, and have been working since I was 15, before that I was babysitting. Our government has showed their personal, or business agendas are more important then, what’s right for the hard, back breaking people of the US. With out us there would be no USA. Maybe many of us would have work, if US based companies weren’t allowed to outsource to other countries, and get tax breaks for it.
Boehner fallowing orders.