The latest http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/11/250181443/extended-unemployment-benefits-on-track-to-expire-dec-28

Obama does NOT favor this... Republican congress is dragging their feet and trying to get stupid concessions stuffed into the bill before they'll vote for extensions... it actually MAY expire and have to be revisited after the 1st of the year.