That means that the cost of a stamp to mail a standard letter will decrease from 49 cents to 47 cents this Sunday. The price of sending a postcard will also drop by a penny, to 34 cents, while international mail will go down by a nickel, to $1.15 per letter instead of the current $1.20.
Most states offer 26 weeks of unemployment insurance compensation. However, at the time of publication, unemployed individuals can qualify for a maximum of 73 weeks of benefits with Emergency Unemployment Compensation from the federal government, depending on the unemployment rate in the state of residence.
When you file your Unemployment Claim, it is set up for a one-year time frame known as a Benefit Year (BYE). The time frame of your BYE begins the Sunday date of the week in which you filed your claim, and continues for one year of that Sunday date. if you become unemployed, and the benefit year (BYE) has passed, you would have to file a new claim.