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In reply to the discussion: The Fiscal Cliff is real for those who will lose their food stamps [View all]drm604
(16,230 posts)160. How will this affect unemployment?
Is it just extended unemployment benefits that will be affected? I was laid off at the end of November so I haven't been collecting for long (I haven't even seen a payment yet), will I be affected by this?
I'm hoping to find employment soon, but there's no guarantee.
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One of the 99
Dec 2012
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I am currently receiving Fed extended unemployment benefits in CA, adminstered through EDD.
stopbush
Dec 2012
#8
I lost my eligibility for the extended benefits back in May, 2012, when CA no longer qualified for
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#86
Sorry, but not necessarily with SNAP benefits. You are ignorant of the law, I get this.
Melinda
Dec 2012
#19
The cliff will force them to do something and if it doesn't then I suspect a lot of congress will be
still_one
Dec 2012
#3
Exactly!!! And yet Americans keep voting them back into power ... because as some have
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#67
Technical note: I believe the phrase 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires' may have originated with
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#99
So what are you suggesting? Just giving into boners "plan b"? That may provide the short term
still_one
Dec 2012
#126
you are right. However, since we last discussed, the republicans didn't even want their own plan.
still_one
Dec 2012
#221
The money is owed to the people on Social Security and to the federal retirees.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#214
You say Duers don't care about those in poverty, then respond to me with a personal attack?
Melinda
Dec 2012
#40
Yours is exactly the reaction Obama is counting on to let him cut SS for everybody
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#27
Nothing could say better how Obama is turning needy people against each other in order to
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#58
It IS Obama's fault. He's making a totally unnecessary concession. If he hadn't been doing that
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#132
That was then. Obama has now been reelected with a comfortable margin. Yet he is still offering
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#144
Please don't attribute thought to me that I don't have. What I do think is that Obama offering
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#169
You're making by far the more dangerous and unsupportable assumption, all to defend a president
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#133
If the 2012 Farm Bill does not pass, then the previous Farm Bill remains in effect
Melinda
Dec 2012
#45
Thank you, you finally admitted that at least one thing that you're posting is BS
MadHound
Dec 2012
#164
We are not going to have Congress on our side any time in the foreseeable future
gollygee
Dec 2012
#94
Current reality is that we can't undo social security cuts and won't be able to in the foreseeable
gollygee
Dec 2012
#129
I think it's the difference between SNAP receiving cuts in the program
Puzzledtraveller
Dec 2012
#61
So old people are to be the sacrificial lambs. Gotcha. That's the new meme around here.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#70
You are the ones insisting it is either/or. One day everyone will go over Obama's cliff.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#102
The cruelty is using seniors for scapegoats. That's what you and President Obama are doing.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#124
This is the same phony 'hide behind the poor' bullshit we heard two years ago, when
Marr
Dec 2012
#80
So it's okay that the poor and needy suffer so you can win an ideological victory?
Autumn
Dec 2012
#165
If you want this deal, which does nothing but harm the needy, yeah this deal is to
Autumn
Dec 2012
#188
Tell it! But you have to assume that everyone who's carping is really a "liberal" or "progressive".
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#109
So, what do you propose? That we go along with the Democrats caving..again?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#166
If it's not so important why are the Republicans and 3rd Way so focused on it?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#210
There are deals that would be worse for more people over the long run, in order to avoid the "cliff"
MNBrewer
Dec 2012
#168
Some would rather score a victory for their "team" than do something to help those in need.
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#195
I don't speak to any person in particular. However, there is a faction of the population --
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#199