MADISON (WKOW) The state s failure to pass a new COVID-19 response package is now costing Wisconsin more than $1 million every week in federal unemployment relief money.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a package approved by the GOP-led Assembly and Senate last Thursday. Evers said he objected to controversial items added by the Assembly after the governor s office and Senate Republican leaders agreed on a compromise deal earlier last month.
In order to receive the federal relief, states cannot have a waiting period for people filing a claim for unemployment benefits.
Wisconsin law requires people filing for unemployment to wait one week before they re eligible to start receiving benefits. Legislative Republicans enacted the measure during the Walker administration.
The Kansas Department of Labor announced Monday number of benefits available under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program increased from 39 weeks to 50 weeks.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) Complaints from consumers desperate for their unemployment money continue to pour into the Action News Troubleshooters.
While Action News helped several viewers get their unemployment money a few months ago, the Troubleshooters are continuing to try to help more viewers, but a new issue has cropped up, impacting tens of thousands of people. We re worried about, you know, what we re going to eat, said Stephanie Baehr, of Mount Laurel, New Jersey. I m worried about losing my car insurance.
The list of worries feels endless for Baehr as she is still waiting for her unemployment benefits. I was approved for an 11-week extension. However, I haven t received anything and going on five weeks now, she said.
‘I have $0 in my bank account.’ 75K people in N.J. still waiting for unemployment extension
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
Elizabeth Matsutani, 60, pictured at her job as an administrative assistant in Eatontown. She was laid off from her job at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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On Jan. 9, Elizabeth Matsutani said she received her last unemployment check for $414, exhausting the benefits she’s relied on since April after she lost her job as an administrative assistant due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Since then, the 60-year-old has watched her bills pile up $1,100 in rent for her Lake Como studio apartment, $173 in cable and internet, $136 for car insurance, and money for her cat’s insulin for diabetes.