Sentence examples for emergency compensation from inspiring English sources

IN THE desperate days after the collapse of the World Trade Centre and the attack on the Pentagon, America's Congress enacted an emergency compensation plan.

Both sides claimed to be holding small towns near the two bigger cities. Meanwhile a Russian aid convoy was poised to cross the Russian side of the border under the supervision of the Red Cross.The European Union said it would pay €125m ($170m) in emergency compensation to fruit and vegetable growers hit by Russia's ban on most imported food from the EU in retaliation for sanctions.

Extended benefits, which further supplements coverage after emergency compensation is exhausted, provides up to 20 weeks.

About the same time, new "emergency unemployment compensation" legislation extended maximum benefit periods for the entire nation.

Note that there is one outlier in North Carolina, which on Monday ended its participation in the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program altogether.

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, financed by the federal government for states that meet certain unemployment and state benefit thresholds, is scheduled to end Jan . 1

And bear in mind that the average worker collecting benefits through the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program receives just $291 per week.

According to data compiled by the National Employment Law Project, states including Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin cut their federally financed Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs soon after sequestration officially hit in March.

By way of background, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program was signed into law in June 2008 by George W. Bush, when the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent.

Hoping to break a stubborn impasse over a major spending and tax package, Senate Democrats late Wednesday unveiled a trimmed-back measure they said was paid for except for emergency unemployment compensation and state aid money.

Sunday was the five-year anniversary of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, a federal program signed into law by President George W. Bush that initially added 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to the standard 26 weeks states already offered eligible jobless workers.