
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 16, 1993                   TAG: 9310160153
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HOUSE EXTENDS JOBLESS AID

The House Friday overwhelmingly voted to extend emergency jobless benefits and pay for the $1 billion in anticipated costs partly through cuts in welfare to elderly immigrants.

The jobless aid bill was sent to the Senate by a vote of 302 to 95, ending a two-week delay caused by Hispanic lawmakers who objected to welfare cuts of $320 million for elderly, blind and disabled immigrants.

Emergency jobless benefits lapsed Oct. 2. Since then about 60,000 unemployed workers who exhausted their regular 26 weeks of checks have been unable to apply for an extra seven or 13 weeks of benefits. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, has indicated he wants a Senate vote next week.

More than 750,000 jobless workers could become eligible for extra benefits before the extension runs out in February.

- The Washington Post

Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by CNB