Unemployment Insurance Modernization and Recession Readiness Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Jul 16, 2025
What it does
The Unemployment Insurance Modernization and Recession Readiness Act aims to modernize and strengthen unemployment compensation by fully federally funding extended benefits, improving triggers for when those benefits activate (including state and national unemployment rate thresholds), and increasing the number of weeks of benefits available during high unemployment periods. It also seeks to modernize regular unemployment insurance by establishing floors for benefit duration and wage replacement, expanding eligibility (including for part-time workers, victims of violence or harassment, and certain student-workers), eliminating waiting weeks, and enhancing programs like short-time…
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