Draft Senate Bill Includes 3-Month Unemployment Benefits Extension

Created: February 09, 2010 18:52 | Last updated: July 31, 2020 00:00

It’s just an early version — or so the Democrats are saying — but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for unemployment insurance (which expires Feb. 28) through the end of May.

The additional three months are half what the House passed in December, and an even further cry from the seven months included in the White House budget, not to mention the 10 months being advocated by a number of Senate Democrats. Still, this would prevent roughly 1.2 million Americans from exhausting their benefits in March.