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Show Additional unemployment benefits signed Action taken by the U.S. Congress last ' month which was signed into law by President Reagan Jan. 6 increased the amount of Federal Supplemental Compensation Com-pensation (FSC) benefits available to jobless workers in Utah from a maximum max-imum of ten weeks of additional benefits to 14 weeks. According to Duane C. Price, Director of Unemployment Insurance for Utah Job Service, the FSC program provides additional unemployment benefits to individuals in-dividuals who have received all of the regular benefits to which they were entitled. Both the benefit and administrative costs of the program are paid from federal general revenues rather than from direct taxes on employers. The increase in additional benefits become effective Jan. 9, Mr. Price said. |