Are there any provisions for rebates or stimulus checks for

[old mark]

those with no taxable income, such as people on pensions or disability?

Anyone know?

mark

[Delphinus]

1. Are there any provisions

for those who work and have income?

[Myrina]

2. Disability recipients, I believe, will get a check for $250 ?

Those of us just flat out unemployed are, as usual, SOL from what I can tell.

[shraby]

4. I read where the unemployed will get a raise

in their benefit checks. Don't know how much tho.

[Pirate Smile]

5. $25 more a week.

THE SAFETY NET: Jobless get a little extra help

Many of those who are unemployed will get a boost from the stimulus bill, including a $25 increase in weekly benefit checks through 2009 that should help not only those who are out of work but the broad economy as that money gets spent.

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The bill includes other measures to help those who have lost their jobs. They:

•Lengthen the period in which people can be eligible for extended unemployment benefits. The program, which provides up to 33 weeks of extra jobless benefits after workers exhaust the regular 26 weeks received in most states, was passed last year and was set to expire at the end of March. Under the stimulus bill, the extended benefits would be available through the end of 2009. The NELP estimates this will help about 3 million people.

•Provide money to states that agree to make benefits available to more workers. That would help at least 500,000 people, including some low-wage and part-time workers, who wouldn't otherwise receive unemployment benefits, the NELP says.

•Suspend the taxation of unemployment benefits up to $2,400.

The measure also helps the unemployed and others by increasing the maximum monthly food-stamp benefit by 13%, which lawmakers estimate will help 31 million Americans, half of them children. And the bill provides a subsidy to cover 65% of a worker's COBRA health insurance premiums for up to nine months. COBRA lets workers continue their former employer's coverage for at least 18 months.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-02-12-stimulus-package-effects_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

[Pirate Smile]

3. $250 to Social Security beneficiaries, SSI recipients, and disabled veterans

[butterfly77]

6. Is there anything that...

relates to the earned income tax credit. I heard Scarborough complaining about it..