More recently, the city's workers' compensation program has come under scrutiny for strictly enforcing a September 2003 deadline for filing requests for benefits.
In good times states build up trust funds so that when unemployment is high there is enough money to cover the requests for benefits, which are guaranteed by the federal government.
At that first visit to the family center, she said, the New York State Crime Victims Board issued her an immediate $1,200 check and sent her off with a list of documents she would be expected to supply -- from canceled checks for out-of-pocket expenses, to statements of death benefits from any source and copies of other government agencies' decisions on her requests for benefits.
Consequently, from a legal standpoint, because the marriages rested solely on the district court's erroneous decision, which has now been reversed, it is as if the marriages never existed, and Plaintiffs' requests for benefits attendant to a legal marriage must be denied.
Some participants' requests for benefits such as food, school fees and uniforms, and shelter, went beyond what the study team, and the research programme, felt they could respond to.
Ms. Cardona said she made her initial request for spousal benefits on the advice of a counselor from a veterans organization, and not because she was trying to make a larger legal point.
Representative Chet Edwards, Democrat of Texas, said: "The president is saying that, for every dollar we put into the bill above his request for veterans benefits, we have to take money out of other domestic programs like homeland security, education and health care.
His daughter Polly said, "Father ought to wear one of those Pullman signs-Quiet is requested for the benefit of those who have retired".
They rejected the airline's first request for wage and benefit cuts and canceled a second vote planned for Thursday after the loan-guarantee board's decision.
Requests for jobless benefits have not improved substantially this year.
When the economy is growing strongly and companies are hiring, requests for unemployment benefits fall below 400,000.
