unemployment compensation

noun

1. (in the US) payment by a governmental agency to unemployed people

unemployment compensation

1. Short-term payments made to workers who have involuntarily lost their jobs.

Example Sentences

The Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs offers people in high-unemployment states up to 47 additional weeks of benefits.

From The Daily Beast

At the same time, the GOP will refuse to act on raising the debt ceiling or extending unemployment compensation.

From The Daily Beast

It eliminates the effectiveness of unemployment compensation as a built in stabilizer.

From The Daily Beast

When he wasn't working, he got some unemployment compensation from the place where he had been working.

From Project Gutenberg

I had forgotten that I had heard the sum or the amount of money he was receiving in unemployment compensation.

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Then you say, "He has been out of work since August, and their income was $33 a week unemployment compensation, not much."

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When he was unemployed in Dallas, do you know whether he received unemployment compensation?

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When he was unemployed in New Orleans, did he get unemployment compensation?

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