"99"ers

I read an interesting article this morning about "99"ers- people who have received unemployment benefits for 99 weeks and are no longer eligible for unemployment, and all the issues that go along with that. They tend to have massive financial problems- since they've been unemployed for so long, they have begged and borrowed to pay their bills, and their credit scores have tanked. Even a free credit score won't help- they know they have problems. Too bad, really... I feel for those people.