Extended Unemployment Benefits End

WKMS | By The Associated Press,

Whitney Jones

Published December 31, 2012 at 8:56 AM CST

About 30,000 Tennesseans and 24,000 Kentuckians are set to lose extended federal unemployment benefits this Wednesday. Congress created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program in 2008 to help workers who had exhausted what they were receiving from the states. The legislation has been amended 10 times since becoming effective, but is set to expire Jan. 2. After Wednesday, Tennessee will return to a system where new claimants receive a maximum of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation.

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Whitney Jones

Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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