Emergency Department Pulse Report | Â© 2010 by Press Ganey Associates, Inc. In 2009, patients spent an average of four hours and seven minutes in the ED, an increase of four minutes since. 2008. Although this is an increase, it must be considered in the context of economic challenges faced during the.
In Luxembourg, the 2.5 per cent âsolidarity surchargeâ levied on your net taxable income goes towards unemployment benefits, in addition to an overall social security contribution of around 31 per cent of the first â¬7,000 of an employeeâs gross income (11 per cent deducted from salary and the remainder contributed by the employer and the government).
But as the stateâs unemployment rate has declined, so has the availability of benefits. At the end of last year, New York stopped offering a sort of last-resort program known as extended benefits that lasted for up to 20 weeks. Now, the longest an unemployed New Yorker can collect benefits for is 79 weeks. But some who only recently started collecting emergency benefits, like Ms. Cozart, may only collect them for a maximum of 37 weeks. For most of that period, the benefits would be reduced by the automatic cuts.