Group of SC residents suing McMaster for ending fed pandemic unemployment assistance
The lawsuit aims to have assistance reinstated and paid retroactively and proactively to those who qualified - or would have if the state hadn t withdrawn from it. Author: Christopher Buchanan Updated: 9:10 PM EDT July 29, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. A group of unnamed plaintiffs is suing the governor of South Carolina and the head of the state s Department of Employment in Workforce, claiming they forfeited more than half a billion dollars in benefits that would have otherwise gone to hard-hit residents.
The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in the Court of Common Pleas in the Fifth Judicial Circuit and accuses Governor Henry McMaster and DEW Director G. Daniel Ellzey of working against the best interests of South Carolinians.
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The Oxford Economics analysts said the pandemic unemployment benefits may be a factor limiting labor supply.
May 21, 2021 04:27 BST
American states are moving to cut pandemic unemployment benefits, a painful blow for millions of people who will soon be left without income.
With punishing jobless levels during the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment benefits had been extended especially to the self-employed and extended further until September 6, even for those who had reached the maximum duration.
But now 21 out of 27 states governed by Republicans including Missouri, Alaska, West Virginia, Indiana and Georgia will soon reduce or eliminate additional unemployment aid, according to a note from analysts at Oxford Economics out Wednesday.