Sentence examples for benefits for weeks from inspiring English sources

It exposes a system that is harsh in the extreme, penalising the most vulnerable of claimants by the withdrawal of benefits for weeks at a time".

Mr. Nowak said that after Sept. 11, problems with computer links involving severed telephone lines in Lower Manhattan slowed benefits for weeks.

Old cards were deactivated before new ones arrived, leaving many families without benefits for weeks, and state workers often failed to honor an exemption for elderly and disabled applicants.

The Senate plan also extends unemployment benefits for 13 weeks beyond the 26 weeks currently provided in most states — at a cost of $10 billion in 2008.

Numerous jobseekers who have had their benefits stopped for weeks or months after being told they are not doing enough to find work have told of the hardship of being penalised and have disputed the fairness of the sanctions.

The Senate today abandoned its effort to pass a plan to boost the economy, but then briefly put aside partisan recriminations to approve a narrow measure extending unemployment benefits for 13 weeks beyond the current 26-week limit.

Democrats say as many as 80,000 people will begin losing their unemployment compensation each week beginning Dec. 21, when a program extending benefits for 13 weeks expires.

The company paid his salary and continued all his benefits for 22 weeks.

They sent a letter saying they were going to stop my benefits for two weeks.

Seven in 10 of the unemployed said that the government should pay benefits for 99 weeks or more.

PAGE A11 Economic Aid Dies in Senate The Senate abandoned efforts to pass a plan to stimulate the economy, but voted to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks.