file for unemployemnt on the net!

[Doug Henwood]

[Only about 40% of the unemployed are covered by unemployemnt 
insurance today, compared with over 60% in the early 1970s - but hey, 
it's the little things taht count!]

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:34 -0400
From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov>
URL:
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/199 
9/8/12/9.text.1

                             THE WHITE HOUSE

                      Office of the Vice President
___________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                    August 10, 1999

 

                     VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE ANNOUNCES

                  GRANTS TO SPEED UP ELECTRONIC FILING OF

                             UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS

      Washington, D.C. - Vice President Al Gore announced today
$9 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Labor to 13 states
for the development of more efficient means of filing Unemployment
Insurance claims.  The grants will enable individuals to file their
initial Unemployment Insurance claims via the telephone or Internet.

      "Streamlining this process will help us provide better support
for American families while they are on the road to getting back to
work," Vice President Gore said.  "Bringing greater efficiency to
states' unemployment insurance processes is a responsibility that
we have to all Americans who have lost their jobs."

      Six states are receiving a total of $5.6 million, provided
under the Department of Labor, to automate telephone systems and
eight states are receiving a total of $3.4 million to develop
Internet systems.

      The six states awarded grants to develop their automated telephone
systems are: Alabama, $1 million; Kentucky, $1 million; Michigan, $1
million; Nebraska, $861,276; New Mexico, $1 million; and Wyoming,
$751,000.

      The eight states awarded grants to develop their Internet filing
systems are: Idaho, $391,781; Kentucky, $500,000; Minnesota, $500,000;
Missouri, $500,000; New Hampshire, $321,896; New Jersey, $276,807; Rhode
Island, $397,240; and Utah, $500,000.

      "This is the fourth year we have awarded grants to states that are
making use of the new technology that will take us into the new
millennium," Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman said.  "We have
received good reports from states already using automated systems and
users like the convenience and privacy."

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