Unemployed RIers Getting Benefits Extension

Full story: WLNE-TV Providence

The RI Department of Labor and Training reports that unemployment insurance claimants who had previously exhausted all their entitled extended unemployment insurance benefits may now be eligible for up to 20 more weeks in additional benefits, as a result of legislation signed into law today by President Barack Obama.

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