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Extended federal benefits offered
01:00 AM EDT on Friday, August 22, 2008
The federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program allows up to 13 weeks of additional unemployment insurance benefits to qualified job seekers.
Only claimants whose benefit-year ending date — the one-year period in which an initial claim was filed — falls after May 5, 2007, are potentially eligible.
Rhode Island began EUC payments in mid-July. As of Aug. 15, state Department of Labor and Training staff members had processed nearly 8,500 EUC claims and have issued more than $11 million in EUC payments.
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