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unemployment compensation

noun

  1. (in the US) payment by a governmental agency to unemployed people
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


unemployment compensation

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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