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How To Apply For Unemployment Insurance

Insurance Insider: When you lose your job unemployment insurance provides temporary financial assistance that can help you pay the bills. Find out how to apply for unemployment insurance benefits in the United States. 1. Find out if you qualify for unemployment insurance. Individual states determine eligibility. Your State Unemployment Insurance Office can tell you if you qualify and how to apply if you do. 2. Gather the documents and information you need to file your claim. You will need your Social Security number. You will also need a list of past employers, their addresses, and your dates of employment. ...

Insurance Expert on May 19, 2010 1

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How to Handle Health Insurance if You Lose Your Job

Health: Most self-employed people have been aware of how inefficient and costly the health insurance system is. But the majority of U.S. citizens haven't been as exposed since employers have been handling many of the issues. In more recent years a number of companies, especially smaller ones, have started passing on some of the costs to keep themselves from being destroyed by rising prices. Now with layoffs increasing a lot of people are looking at losing their health care coverage altogether when they find out how prohibitive the full cost is. Step 1 Although the temptation is to...

Insurance Expert on November 18, 2009 0

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Will House extend unemployment benefits?

Insurance Insider: The House is taking up emergency legislation this week to help the millions of Americans who see no immediate end to their economic miseries. A bill offered by Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and expected to pass easily would provide 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits for more than 300,000 jobless people who live in states with unemployment rates of at least 8.5 percent and who are scheduled to run out of benefits by the end of September. So far it’s for Alabama, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Miss...