Our View: Employment programs can help those who lost jobs during pandemic
Pacific Daily News
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance is winding down, and Guam Department of Labor Director David Dell’Isola says the agency has been seeing an anecdotal decrease in claimants as individuals slowly, but surely, return to work.
“As the island opens up, more people are increasing their reduced hours and other people are also being called back to their work. Businesses are starting to open up, so we’ll start seeing hopefully a trend of a decline,” Dell’Isola said.
On April 13, Del. Mike San Nicolas warned that federal aid for unemployment was likely to sunset this coming September, as economic conditions improve stateside. That means saying goodbye to a nice chunk of free federal money for thousands of residents. That, in turn, means all those receiving unemployment will need to find work, hopefully well before September.