Contact your local unemployment office. They are the only ones who can tell you. Benefits run out depending on which state you live in, and its unemployment rate.
Mine ran out after 60 weeks back in July. I won't see unemployment benefits until I work again (ha), and lose my next job. Not everyone is entitled to the 99 weeks.
The first 26 weeks of benefits come from your state, after that, it's from the Fed. You may not be eligible for additional unemployment because you didn't work long enough as well. As for retroactive benefits, that's not likely to happen unless you have still been making employment contacts and keeping a record of them.
You should have filed for your extended benefits immediately after your initial claim ran out.
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