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Social Security Explained, 2010 Edition 
Provides a comprehensive and detailed explanation for the federal old-age, survivor's and disability insurance segments of the Social Security program.
The Missouri Employment Security Law has been amended as follows:
State liability for benefits limited. This amendment to the law removes the provision that prohibits the unpaid principal amount of outstanding credit instruments in the Unemployment Compensation Fund, combined with the unpaid principal amount of any financing agreement authorized and issued by the Board of Unemployment Fund Financing, from exceeding $450 million at any one time. It also removes the provision that prohibits the current total amount of outstanding obligations under all financial agreements entered into by the Board from exceeding the difference between $450 million and the principal amount of outstanding credit instruments.
Extended benefits. Beginning February 1, 2009, and ending December 5, 2009, the state is eligible to receive federal extended unemployment benefit money when: (1) The average state unemployment rate as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor for the most recent three-month period is 6.5% or higher; and (2) The average state unemployment rate of 6.5% or higher exceeds 110% of the average of the unemployment rate for either or both of the corresponding three-month periods ending in the two preceding calendar years.
An individual will be eligible to receive federal extended unemployment benefits in a high unemployment period if he or she has exhausted all state benefits. "High unemployment period" means any period during which the state unemployment rate for the most recent three-month period is 8% or higher. The total amount of extended benefits an eligible unemployed individual may receive during such a period is the lessor of: (1) 80% of the total amount of regular benefits which were payable in the applicable benefit year; or (2) 20 times the weekly benefit amount that was payable for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.
Expanded federal unemployment benefits. The state is authorized to receive federal unemployment benefit money pending certification by the United States Secretary of Labor under 42 U.S.C.1103, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the “Federal Economic Stimulus Act,” for expanding unemployment compensation eligibility criteria.
Compelling family reasons. No claimant will be disqualified from unemployment compensation if he or she is separated from work for compelling family reasons including:
(1) The illness or disability of a member of the claimant's immediate family;
(2) The need for the claimant to accompany the claimant's spouse to a location from which it is impractical for the claimant to commute due to a change in location of the spouse's employment; or
(3) Verified domestic violence which causes the claimant to reasonably believe that continued employment would jeopardize his or her safety or the safety of any member of the claimant's family.
Training. A claimant who is in training under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 or in director-approved training under the Missouri law and who has exhausted his or her regular unemployment benefits will be eligible for additional benefits up to 26 times the amount of his or her weekly benefit amount. The training benefits will be paid under the same terms and conditions as the claimant's regular benefits and after any extended benefits or similar benefits have been paid by a federally funded program. Priority for training funds will be given to claimants laid off through no fault of their own from Missouri automobile manufacturing facilities.
Renewal. The provisions regarding the expanded eligibility criteria for federal unemployment benefits must be renewed in the next regular session of the General Assembly or they will expire when the funds provided by the federal act are expended. These provisions will not take effect and no benefits will be paid unless first certified by the United States Secretary of Labor under federal regulations.
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