{"id":30380,"date":"2021-05-18T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30380"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:45:09","slug":"authorized-worker-unemployment-benefits-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30380","title":{"rendered":"Authorized worker unemployment benefits advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval May 18 to a bill that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20153\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20153\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senmcdonnell_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike McDonnell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike McDonnell&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20153\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mike McDonnell\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMcDonnell_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike McDonnell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, Nebraska employers pay unemployment insurance taxes for all employees \u2014including eligible work-authorized immigrants who are barred under state law from receiving unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>LB298, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Mike McDonnell, would allow work-authorized immigrants to collect unemployment benefits when otherwise qualified.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell said Nebraska is the only state that continues to deny unemployment benefits to these workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The bill] will address the gap in access to unemployment benefits currently being denied to otherwise qualified and legally present workers in the state of Nebraska,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Under a Business and Labor Committee amendment, adopted 33-0, an individual eligible for benefits under LB298 first would have their employment authorization verified through the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program.<\/p>\n<p>The bill advanced to select file on a 26-9 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval May 18 to a bill that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-30380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-labor","tag-sen-mike-mcdonnell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LB298McDonnell5-18-21a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30381,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions\/30381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}