NJ jobless are running out of unemployment checks
Cheryl Butts knew her unemployment benefits weren’t supposed to last forever, but when she received notice last month that she would abruptly be cut off, an alarm went off.
Gone in a flash was $533 a week, with little to fall back on and few expenses left to cut.
With unemployment benefits, “I was able to manage,” Butts, 67, of Neptune, said. “It wasn’t as much as I made when I was working, but it paid for rent, car insurance and the car note. You scrimp and save and manage to get through, but that was twenty-something hundred dollars a month I don’t have.”
Butts could be a sign of things to come. Thousands of New Jersey residents are at risk of losing unemployment benefits through programs that were extended during the Great Recession. With the job market still sluggish, they have taken sometimes drastic steps. And they are nervous about what’s in store. (Diamond, Asbury Park Press)
I don’t understand. The maximum unemployment you can receive is 405 per week.