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Pennsylvania Seniors No Longer Receive Reduced
Unemployment Pay
Dec. 17, 2005 – As senior citizens live longer
healthier lives and struggle to keep up with the cost of health care and
energy, more are going back to work. It is making big changes in this
country as demonstrated clearly by a law signed yesterday by
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell that changes unemployment
compensation rules to now longer deduct Social Security from the
unemployment checks paid to senior citizens.
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"Ensuring that seniors who are eligible for
unemployment compensation are not penalized, but are fairly compensated,
is one of the tangible steps we are taking to ease the financial burdens
of our most vulnerable citizens," said Rendell.
Previously, the Pennsylvania law specified that
half of the weekly amount of a Social Security and Railroad pension was
deducted from a senior citizens recipient's UC payment. Now, those
figures are not considered when UC benefits to senior citizens are
determined.
The new law takes effect immediately.
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