Unemployment Insurance
News
| Recession Likely to Boost Unemployment Insurance
Rates |
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Accelerating job
losses are expected to push the Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance
Trust Fund into the red during each of the next three years, requiring
federal loans and potential employer surcharges to keep the system
afloat, state officials acknowledge. Current Massachusetts UI rates are
already more than twice the national average.
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| Stimulus COBRA Subsidy has Employers Seeing
Double |
Massachusetts
employers will apparently be required to continue funding the state
Medical Security Plan for unemployed workers while also paying a
refundable 65 percent subsidy for COBRA benefits included in the
economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama.
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Issues
H.4490;
the Governor’s bill entitled: An Act Providing for Job Creation by
Small Businesses
AIM comments on H. 4490, An Act Providing for Job
Creation by Small Businesses
H.1841 - An Act Eliminating the Workforce Training
Fund
AIM testimony in support of H.1841 - An Act Eliminating the Workforce
Training Fund
AIM testimony in support of H.1845 An Act Relative to
Non Discrimination Training in the Workplace
AIM supports H.1845 and urges the committee to give it a
favorable report.
Extended Unemployment Insurance for Massachusetts
Workers Involved in Qualified Job Training
AIM's testimony supporting extended unemployment
insurance benefits for training
An Act Relative to Reform of the Unemployment Insurance
System
Massachusetts still has one of the highest UI rates in
the nation, despite a rate freeze in 2008. AIM legislation brings
Massachusetts into line with UI practices in a majority of other states
by limiting the duration of benefits to 26 weeks, increasing work and
wage requirements for benefit eligibility, and updating rate tables to
create equity in employer UI payments.
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