In principle, a variety of health and family support programs, along with other noncash support, will be available to people whose benefits expire after October.

But the benefit expires at the end of the year; after that, a sale of the steel division would not have an adverse tax impact.

But Democrats, pushing for a more generous plan to cover those whose benefits had expired, stalled the proposal for a few hours.

Governor Spitzer said yesterday that "the spigot will be turned off when the benefits expire."

She added that she hoped to start a child-care business with a friend before those benefits expired.

But as their benefits expire, workers say that the program has left them without new marketable skills.

The benefits would expire in three years.

But these benefits expire after 36 weeks.

And many families seem not to have been informed that their benefits would eventually expire.

But unlike the Senate bill, it provides no help to those whose benefits have expired or will shortly run out.