While unemployment insurance benefits have assisted millions of families through the recession and have even helped improve the economy, state unemployment insurance programs are facing their worst financial position since they were founded in 1935, according to a recent brief by the National Academy of Social Insurance.
"The current financing crisis in state UI programs can be described as a perfect storm resulting from the constellation of four factors," says Wayne Vroman, author of the brief and economist at the Urban Institute. "These factors are: a deep and prolonged recession, low reserves prior to the recession, the timing of the downtown, and low levels of employment through 2011."
The brief reveals that of the 53 unemployment programs, which are offered in the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 36 have received loans from the U.S. Treasury since 2007. Twenty-eight of those have outstanding Treasury loans for a total of $37 billion.
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