Recession &
Support for Workers

Information Online:
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

Click here: Here To Help

Help for those whose benefits are exhausted

New Links:

• Extended Unemployment Compensation facts

Other links

• "Surviving the Recession" Benefits for laid off workers (PDF)
• Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Information
• Some facts on Unemployment Benefits in Pennsylvania
• Slides of the Dec. 3 Jobs Summit
• Free Services for the Unemployed
• Laid Off & Left Out: America's Workers Deserve Better (information on extended benefits)

Press coverage:

• In Bipartisan Compromise, Congress Revamps Unemployment Benefits
• Conference Agreement Far Better for Unemployed Workers and UI System Than Original House Bill
• Congress approves payroll tax cut
• Local Experts See Positives In Unemployment Numbers
• House G.O.P. Leaders Agree to Extension of Payroll Tax Cut
• Labor to launch attacks on Republicans in benefits fight
• Philadelphia Jobs Rally Takes On Protest Flavor As Congress Dithers on Benefits
• House rejects payroll tax cut, jobless benefits
• NPR Poll Shows Long-Term Unemployed Desperate for Work
• Targeting the Unemployed
• Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits

Read more press coverage

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

other campaigns

• Organizing Unemployed Workers in the Great Recession
• Summary of federal and state minimum wage rates
• Throwing minimum-wage 'experts' for a loss
• Lessons from the Minimum Wage Campaign in Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, PA 19102-1510

Top News

• Sheriff Retracts Speech, Withdraws Fee Hike
• Pa. foreclosures outpace U.S. rate
• Judge saves foreclosure program
• Foreclosure Diversion Program Out of Danger
• Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
• Council: Mortgage program works fine
• Foreclosure Filings Up After GOP Defunds HEMAP
• Philadelphia ‘MoveOn’ Members Upset Over Housing Crisis Protest Outside ‘Obama For America’ Office
• Foreclosure Starts On The Rise, Driven By Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
• Report: Foreclosures rising in Pa.
• Feb. foreclosure filings in metro area up sharply over 2011 level

• DN Editorial: Stealing home? State should use mortgage settlement for homeowners
• Pa. officials still unsure if mortgage settlement money will go to HEMAP
• Bipartisan support in Senate for housing aid - News - Standard Speaker (subscription required)
• In Bipartisan Compromise, Congress Revamps Unemployment Benefits

• Homeowners offered relief in Philadelphia program

More top news stories

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Housing

Another Take on Solving the Foreclosure Crisis
Loans to Jobless Homeowners

PDF | Web Page

• Sheriff Retracts Speech, Withdraws Fee Hike
• Pa. foreclosures outpace U.S. rate
• Judge saves foreclosure program
• Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
• Council: Mortgage program works fine
• Foreclosure Filings Up After GOP Defunds HEMAP
• Philadelphia ‘MoveOn’ Members Upset Over Housing Crisis Protest Outside ‘Obama For America’ Office
• Foreclosure Starts On The Rise, Driven By Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac

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Link to Pennsylvania's Here To Help Web site

PA Homeowners' Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP)

FAQs on avoiding foreclosure (links to FHA website)
PA Homeowners' Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP)
Federal Housing Administration Web site

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Health CARE

• Hearings eyed for Blue Cross
• Fewer than half former adultBasic enrollees have signed up for alternative insurance
• COBRA health-insurance subsidy to end
• Highmark asks to raise 'last-resort' rates
• State health group wants more transparency for consumers
• Health care law's anniversary marked by debate at state Capitol
• Bad for their health
• A long, hard look at life after adultBasic
• Basic care: Corbett can get a better deal for the working poor

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Upcoming Events

Spring Jazz Fest

Friday, June 8, 2012
6:00 to 10:00 PM
First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
2125 Chestnut Street
Honoring Liz McElroy and Katie Sipp
and featuring:
Eubie Nieves and the Good Budz
Click here for more information

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Support the work of PUP

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.

Recent Events

HEMAP Lobby Day and Rally
April 3, 2012
See Slides

Save Our Homes Coalition at City Council
March 29, 2012
See slides

PUP Toy Drive
December 22, 2011
See Slides

Stop Foreclosures! Rally
November 3, 2011
See Slides

HEMAP Rally and Lobby Day
September 27, 2011
Read more

PA Save Our Homes Coalition Press Conference
August 11, 2011
See Slides

2011 PUP Jazz Fest
May 27, 2011
See Slides

Rally To Stop Sheriff's Sale
March 24, 2011
See Slides

Commuter Options

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.

August 2011 Update

Commuter Options Press Coverage

• Nepalese refugees blaze a trail in Phila.
• 'Job sprawl' threatens urban poor, study says
• Phila. Van-Pooling Organization Expands As Jobs Become More Scarce

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Spotlight on PUP

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

Job Seekers Have A New Worry: Unemployment Bias

Phila. Project joins effort to restore Pa. mortgage assistance

See what the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has to offer!

Study: Organizing In Pennsylvania Worth The Investment

Philly Anti-Jobless Group Gives Holiday Gifts to Affected Kids

Local Program For Long-Term Unemployed

November Newsletter

Lobbying to keep a Way to Work

‘Way To Work’ Program Ending In Philly

Fighting against foreclosures, with U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah & John Dodds (WHYY Radio Times)

Extension To Unemployment Benefits A Lifeline

Philadelphia to launch scam-alert program on mortgage modifications

Seeds of a Movement for the Unemployed

December 3rd Jobs Summit in D.C.

Young advocates push for health

Photos of rally outside TARP Oversight Committee hearings

Philadelphia Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program

Interview on Radio Times about the Philadelphia Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program (audio clip)

PUP Slide shows

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