Introduced
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To add a new “trigger” for the payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits. The new trigger would be when, over the preceding 13 weeks, the state unemployment rate is more than 6.5 percent, and is also 10 percent higher than the same period in either of the preceding two years. Under current law, the two existing extended benefit “triggers” are when the U.S. Secretary of Labor calls for them (a national "on" indicator), or when for the last thirteen weeks the insured unemployment rate in Michigan is more five percent, and is also 20 percent higher than the combined average rate over the same thirteen-week periods in each of the preceding two years. Also, under current law, the triggers are based on the unemployment rate among individuals who had been employed in the past. The bill would change this to include new job seekers in the basis used to calculate the rate. The bill is intended to garner increased federal extended unemployment insurance benefits. See also House Bill 4945, which contains the same provisions.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor
