Governor Sanford To Sign Jobless Benefits Extension Bill Thursday

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Relief is on the way for thousands of
unemployed South Carolina residents.
    Gov. Mark Sanford plans to sign into law a measure on Thursday
that will extend jobless benefits to workers who had begun running
out of weekly state and federal help.
    The measure Sanford’s office says he’ll approve at 11 a.m.
ensures at least seven weeks of federal extended jobless benefits
for South Carolina workers who already had begin losing weekly
checks.
    The Legislature made a needed change this week to ensure the
benefits keep coming.
    State Rep. Kenny Bingham of Cayce says workers who have missed
checks will get them retroactively.
   
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