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By Evelyn Lee
Federal legislation enacted in November provided for a second tier of Extended Unemployment Compensation benefits, which will extend the benefits in states where the average unemployment rate is at least 6.0 percent for three consecutive months. New Jersey reached the 6.0 percent average unemployment rate for the three-month period ending November 2008; as of the week ending January 10, 2009, workers in the state will now be qualified for Tier II EUC benefits, according to the state Department of Labor.
Currently, EUC Tier I provides up to 20 weeks of additional federally-funded benefits to claimants who exhaust their regular state unemployment insurance benefits. With the addition of the new Tier II benefits, New Jersey’s unemployed workers are eligible for a maximum of up to 33 weeks of federally funded extended unemployment insurance benefits, the department said.
