Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:55 AM >From pop_server."quigley"@loyno.edu Wed Oct 26 16:24:27 2005 Received: from loyno.edu by web52414.mail.yahoo.com with YMEXTPOP; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:24:27 PDT Received: from web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.222]) by loyno.edu (8.13.4/8.12.11) with SMTP id j9QLmTk0622598 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:48:30 -0500 Received: (qmail 62729 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Oct 2005 21:48:29 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=VVQEepojIIpEv2l7Oaf+762zuFGgcOXj6CPau5GRvRBf43QhoziV5Va7YeFLW0onXZ/hVgCjOFWZwe3Epi+JNbNGD0RR5B1R9f3XbKYVkg2Ns4r72AYYDP+GcpNdvjHAov3pUbr8w0hYi8OgTTfrY4lDtQggP9y5hujufJ9dOTc= ; Received: from [69.153.192.221] by web32512.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:48:28 PDT Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Katherine Knorr Subject: Disaster Unemployment Benefits To: lisa arnolds , mary barket , leila bonilla , paula bruner , Cheryl Buchert , kristina denapolis , melissa denard , Stephanie Dovalina , ramona fernandez , Heather Ford , Tiffany Garraton , jeff goldman , matt joseph , Hiroko Kusuda , Glen Major , judson mitchell , luz molina , Tina Motwani , Bill Quigley , david rosiglioini , byrne sherwood , stephen singer , Erica Smith , majeeda snead , barbara wilson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-931872931-1130363308=:61651" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-PMX-Version: 5.0.3.165339, Antispam-Engine: 2.1.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.10.26.25 Status: Content-Length: 2018 --0-931872931-1130363308=:61651 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hey Everybody, You may have already seen this, I just read it today and thought it was good info to pass along. This was on the WWLTV website. If your job was affected by Katrina, you may get disaster unemployment benefits 12:29 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Houma Courier Terrebonne and Lafourche residents and displaced evacuees who have lost their jobs due to hurricanes Katrina or Rita may be able to claim disaster unemployment benefits even if they are not normally eligible for state unemployment compensation. Disaster unemployment assistance extends income compensation to self-employed people, farm workers, people who have worked for only a few weeks and others who have lost earned income or whose income has been interrupted as a result of a major disaster declared by the president. The aid is available in many Louisiana parishes to unemployed U.S. nationals and qualified aliens who worked or were self-employed if they: . Worked or were self-employed in or were scheduled to begin work or self-employment in an area declared as a federal disaster area. Can no longer work or perform services because of physical damage or destruction to the place of employment as a direct result of a disaster. Establish that the work or self-employment they can no longer perform was their primary source of income. Do not qualify for regular unemployment insurance benefits from any state. Cannot perform work or self-employment because of an injury or because they were incapacitated as a direct result of the disaster. Became the breadwinner or major support of a household because of the death of the head of the household. Cannot work or perform self-employment due to closure of a facility by the federal government. >li> Lose a majority of income or revenue because the employer or self-employed business was damaged, destroyed or closed by the federal government. Claims may be filed: In person at any Louisiana Department of Labor One Stop or job center. Online at www.LAWORKS.net. By calling 1-800-430-8076 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Individuals living or working in the following parishes have until Nov. 30 to file for the disaster unemployment aid: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Point Coupee, Plaquemines, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana. --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. --0-931872931-1130363308=:61651 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hey Everybody,
 
You may have already seen this,  I just read it today and thought it was good info to pass along.  This was on the WWLTV website.
 
 
If your job was affected by Katrina, you may get disaster unemployment benefits

12:29 PM CDT on Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Houma Courier

Terrebonne and Lafourche residents and displaced evacuees who have lost their jobs due to hurricanes Katrina or Rita may be able to claim disaster unemployment benefits even if they are not normally eligible for state unemployment compensation.

Disaster unemployment assistance extends income compensation to self-employed people, farm workers, people who have worked for only a few weeks and others who have lost earned income or whose income has been interrupted as a result of a major disaster declared by the president.

The aid is available in many Louisiana parishes to unemployed U.S. nationals and qualified aliens who worked or were self-employed if they:

.

Worked or were self-employed in or were scheduled to begin work or self-employment in an area declared as a federal disaster area.

Can no longer work or perform services because of physical damage or destruction to the place of employment as a direct result of a disaster.

Establish that the work or self-employment they can no longer perform was their primary source of income.

Do not qualify for regular unemployment insurance benefits from any state.

Cannot perform work or self-employment because of an injury or because they were incapacitated as a direct result of the disaster.

Became the breadwinner or major support of a household because of the death of the head of the household.

Cannot work or perform self-employment due to closure of a facility by the federal government.

>li> Lose a majority of income or revenue because the employer or self-employed business was damaged, destroyed or closed by the federal government.

Claims may be filed:

In person at any Louisiana Department of Labor One Stop or job center.

Online at www.LAWORKS.net.

By calling 1-800-430-8076 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Individuals living or working in the following parishes have until Nov. 30 to file for the disaster unemployment aid: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Point Coupee, Plaquemines, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.

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