Samka Keranovic says she is lucky, she is still working. At the same time, she is hoping unemployment will help her husband stay home to help their children stay focused on virtual learning.
Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews
Dec 31, 2020 8:20 AM
During the week of Dec. 20-26, a total of 602 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the Department of Labor and Regulation. This is a decrease of 168 claims from the prior week’s total of 770.
A total of $853,000 was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $171,000 in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $219,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $171,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
The latest number of continued state claims is 3,609 for the week ending Dec. 19, a decrease of 617 from the prior week’s total of 4,226. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
When Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill extending the expanded unemployment benefits through March, she may have vetoed it out of law shortly after. Whitmer signed Senate Bill 604, which allows the state’s expanded unemployment benefits, workers getting 26 weeks of pay instead of 20, through April 1. But when she line item vetoed SB 748, an accompanying bill, she cut.
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