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Article: Congress Restores Worker Benefits Now, but Bill Doesn't Aid All Jobless.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 12, 2003
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By T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 12--About 42,000 unemployed workers in Illinois whose jobless benefits ended late last year will have them restored under the new unemployment extension bill signed last week by President Bush.
That means if you received eight weeks of the 13-week extension before the Dec. 28 cutoff, you will get the other five weeks.
The extension also will provide 13 weeks of federal benefits to an estimated 17,000 Illinois jobless per month who exhaust their state benefits through June 1.
"By June, about 83,000 Illinois workers will be able to take advantage," said ...