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Recession &
Support for Workers

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Unemployment Compensation &
Filing bi weekly claims

Click here: 99ers: The Real Lives of the Long-Term Jobless - Video - TIME.com


Click for Benefits for Laid Off Workers

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Help for those whose benefits are exhausted

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COMPASS is an online application for Pennsylvanians to apply for many health and human service programs.Unemployed workers can apply for Food Stamps and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and other programs at the Pennsylvania Compass link.
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Help for Mortgage Foreclosure

Call the Unemployment Information Center at
215-557-0822 for help if you are behind on your mortgage. Our housing counselors may be able to help you.

Information on foreclosure prevention


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Our office is located at:
112 North Broad Street, 11th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1510

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PUP volunteers registered 3,899 new voters in 2012.
PUP's voter registration team who registered 3,899 voters in
21/2 months in a great grass roots campaign.

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Housing

Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis
Loans to Jobless Homeowners

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Link to Pennsylvania's Here To Help Web site

FAQs on avoiding foreclosure (links to FHA website)

Federal Housing Administration Web site


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HEMAP Update

Final version of SB 1433 as signed by Governor Corbett

The Philadelphia Unemployment Project is a membership organization of low-wage workers and the unemployed. PUP has fought for jobs and for economic justice since 1975. We are also an unemployed workers center that helps people win unemployment cases, save their houses, and get access to health care.

Spotlight on PUP

John and Evelyn Dodds, Helping the Unemployed While Caring for a Newborn

Jobless to lose benefits to budget cuts (CNN video)

Unemployment drops in September: PUP on ABC 6

CNN Spotlights PUP

Payday loans: Bad idea for Pa.

Protest rally for elimination of general assistance

Looking For Jobs At Xfinity Live!

Homeowners protest upcomming sheriff's sale (video)

Click here: 99ers: The Real Lives of the Long-Term Jobless - Video - TIME.com

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Recent Events

Health Care Rally April 18, 2013
March and Rally to Corbett’s Office
Thursday, April 18 Noon
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Roundtable with low wage workers and the Secretary of Labor.
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PUP was featured by BCKSEET Productions for their holiday play EL Fuego, a new holiday musical which deals with issues of unemployment at the Adrienne Theater in December. They are donating some of the proceeds from the play to PUP.   
Click here: Outreach Initiative
Click here: El Fuego, a new holiday musical

PUP Gift Drive for Children of the Unemployed
December 20. 2012
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Unemployment Compensation Rally
November 19, 2012
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HEMAP Lobby Day and Rally
April 3, 2012
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Save Our Homes Coalition at City Council
March 29, 2012
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Commuter Options

PUP van pool

As the jobless recovery continues the Commuter Options program continues to offer a path to employment for Philadelphia workers.  Commuter Options van and car pools provide transportation to nearly 100 workers daily to jobs in the suburbs.

PUPCO 2012 Accounts

Commuter Options Press Coverage

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