SC Unemployment Benefits Agency Open Saturday
Mon, July 26, 2010
COLUMBIA — South Carolina's unemployment benefits agency is opening its doors after normal weekday hours so people who had lost their benefits for nearly two months can get some help.
The state Department of Employment and Workforce says its 36 offices across the state are open 8 a.m. to noon Saturday to help process claims restored under a new law.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed a $34 billion measure that restores unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for six months or more. It ends a seven-week interruption that caused 2.5 million people nationwide to lose benefits averaging about $300 a week.
South Carolina's jobless rate dropped to 10.7 percent in June, the seventh-worst jobless rate in the nation.
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