The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is warning the approximately 30,000 unemployment claimants who are receiving federally extended unemployment insurance that they are facing the abrupt end of those benefits when the program expires on January 2. Congress created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program in 2008 to provide unemployment benefits to workers who have exhausted the first 26 weeks of state benefits. All claimants receiving extended federal benefits will receive their last payment the first week of January. (jb)