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By CASEY SMITH
Associated Press/Report for America
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â Indianaâs Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday that it still hasnât decided how to continue payment of federal unemployment benefits, more than a week after a judge ruled that the state must restart the extra $300 weekly payments to unemployed workers.
An agency spokesperson declined to comment on if or when the state plans to rejoin the programs that expanded unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could still be nearly three weeks before a judge rules on Gov. Eric Holcomb s appeal to drop Indiana from the national programs before theyâre scheduled to end on Sept. 6.
July 7, 2021
Indiana’s Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday that it still hasn’t decided how to continue payment of federal unemployment benefits, more than a week after a judge ruled that the state must restart the extra $300 weekly payments to unemployed workers.
An agency spokesperson declined to comment on if or when the state plans to rejoin the programs that expanded unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. It could still be nearly three weeks before a judge rules on Gov. Eric Holcomb’s appeal to drop Indiana from the national programs before they’re scheduled to end on Sept. 6.
“Hi, I’m Richard Essex of WISH-TV. We are trying to make an appointment to see the commissioner, Fred Payne,” News 8’s Richard Essex said. “Is this the office?”
Upon News 8’s arrival at the office, a security guard hired by the state said she wasn’t sure where Payne’s office was located.
“Well, you can go down there to the other office and get a hold of him,” she said.
The security guard escorted News 8 to another office that she called the intake office. Once inside that office, News 8 made the same request; a woman lady behind the desk at the intake office said she was new to the job and wasn’t sure who we needed to speak with.
April, but it regressed in May.
If you recall, after being at 4.6% in November 2020, it decreased to
4.1% in December, jumped 0.8% to 4.9% in January, then up again 0.2%
to 5.1% in February. After improving 0.1% to 5% in March, the county
improved again 0.7% to 4.3% in April, before rising to 4.8% in May,
according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development in their
monthly news release.
steadily dropping back from the COVID-19 pandemic s effect, from 11%
in May 2020, to 10.3% in June, to 7.1% in July, to 6% in August, to
5.6% in September, to 4.5% in October.
The county s rank statewide had remained steady at 21st-worst in
December and January, improved slightly to 23rd-worst in February,