Core Provisions: This legislation would provide for additional emergency unemployment compensation by amending the Supplemental Appropriations Act to extend benefits for jobless workers who have exhausted their benefits.  The bill would augment individuals’ benefit amounts by the lesser of 50 percent of the regular compensation payable to the individual during the benefit year under state law, or 13 times the individual’s average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. The legislation’s phase-out provisions provide for no augmentation of benefits after March 31, 2009.

Status: Rep. McDermott (D-WA) introduced H.R. 6867 on September 10, 2008, and it was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.