Unemployment checks for some Connecticut residents will be a little lighter come June, when sequestration takes a bite out of emergency benefits.
The State Labor Department said emergency unemployment compensation payments will drop beginning June 16 by 19.2 percent to comply with sequestration.
Washington, D.C. politicians concocted a plan where by the bulging federal deficit could be cut automatically while allowing both Democrats and Republicans to blame each other for those cuts. It was called the Budget Control Act of 2011 but is also called sequestration.
The cut in unemployment benefits does not affect the first 26 weeks of unemployment insurance, but does affect additional emergency unemployment payments paid out after that.
Connecticut EUC payments are paid in three tiers covering a total of 37 additional weeks.
For more facts, see http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/progsupt/unemplt/sequestration/FAQs.htm
