CONFERENCE AGREEMENT FAR BETTER FOR UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AND UI SYSTEM THAN ORIGINAL HOUSE BILLConference Agreement • February 17th, 2012
Contract Type FiledFebruary 17th, 2012The conference agreement on legislation that continues federal emergency unemployment insurance (UI) gives unemployed workers a far better deal than UI legislation that the House passed last December. It also rejects extreme proposals in the House bill that would have changed the essential character of the UI system, which policymakers created in 1935 to provide financial assistance to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.