200,000 New Yorkers will lose unemployment benefits soon unless Congress acts - New York unemployment benefits | Examiner.com

200,000 New Yorkers will lose unemployment benefits soon unless Congress acts - New York unemployment benefits | Examiner.com: "The NY labor department warned on Friday that 200,000 unemployed New York state residents will have their unemployment benefits cut off by the end of the year if Congress fails to continue the extensions that are currently in place.

'These are the facts: Without federal legislation to extend Unemployment Insurance benefits past November 28, some 200,000 New Yorkers will prematurely exhaust their extended UI benefits by the end of the year,' the department said in a statement. "