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On May 4, 2021, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced that the state would end its participation in federal COVID-19 unemployment benefits related to the pandemic and transition to pre-pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility and benefits by the end of June.
Iowa Workforce Development reports initial unemployment insurance claims filed for week of April 25 – May 1, 2021
DES MOINES – The number of initial unemployment claims in Iowa, filed between Sunday, April 25, and Saturday, May 1, was 3,375, a decrease of 580 from last week’s adjusted numbers. There were 3,027 initial claims by individuals who work and live in Iowa, and 348 claims by individuals who work in Iowa and live in another state. The number of continuing weekly unemployment claims was 28,451, a decrease of 2,081 from the previous week. For the week ending May 1, 2021, nearly 54.2% of claimants indicated their claims were not COVID-19 related, which is an increase from 50.7% the previous week.
The number of new weekly filers for unemployment benefits dropped to its lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago.
As of the end of last week, 4,472 new claims were filed with the Department of Labor and Employment, down from 5,825 for the week ending April 24.
Thatâs the lowest its been since the week ending Sept. 26, when 4,882 claims were filed. That compared to a high of more than 260,000 filers in the early weeks of the pandemic.
At the same time, the state recorded only 618 claims for federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, also the lowest those claims have been in the weeks that program was available.
May 7, 2021
Governor McMaster has set a date for South Carolina to stop participating in federal unemployment benefit programs related to the pandemic.
As of June 30th, South Carolina will no longer offer Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation, Emergency Unemployment Relief for Governmental Entities and Nonprofit Organizations, or Temporary Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week.
McMaster says the supplemental unemployment payments are causing the state s labor shortage. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce says there are over 81-thousand open positions in the state.