New Benefits for Unemployed Californians in Biden’s American Rescue Plan
By Quinci LeGardye, California Black Media
Published April 8, 2021
When President Biden signed the country’s third federal COVID-19 stimulus package with direct payments to individuals into law on March 11, it extended the increased unemployment benefits that first went into effect with the CARES Act a year prior.
Supporters of the legislation say, with hundreds of thousands of new unemployment claims being filed across the country, unemployment aid is still a necessary part of pandemic relief.
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The American Rescue Plan Act extends both the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) programs through Sept. 6, 2021. In addition to these extensions, each recipient will get an extra $300 of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) each week through Sept. 6.
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During the week of March 28-April 3, a total of 243 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the Department of Labor and Regulation. This is a decrease of 56 claims from the prior week’s total of 299.
The latest number of continued state claims is 3,792 for the week ending March 27, a decrease of 1,057 from the prior week’s total of 4,849. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
For week ending April 3, a total of $1 million was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $1.3 million in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $90,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $299,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
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