Did you know that COBRA health insurance subsidies and emergency Unemployment Compensation are set to expire on February 28, 2010?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, California had a 12.4 % unemployment rate in December 2009.  That means that there are currently 2,254,381 unemployed people in our state.  Around 150,000 of them stand to lose their unemployment benefits and nearly 1 million stand to lose their COBRA health insurance subsidies at the end of this month.

As California Healthline reported in December, the average COBRA premium is $1,107 a month in California, about $720 of which is covered by the federal subsidy.  The average unemployment compensation benefit in California amounts to $1,349 per month.

Our friends at NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby have a nifty form on their website that makes it easy to advocate for an extension to Unemployment benefits and COBRA subsidies.  Visit NETWORK’s website to find out more.

Tags: cobra, unemployment

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