State deploys Phase 2 of the Continued Assistance Act
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment is now rolling out Phase 2 of the Continued Assistance Act and since deploying on Saturday, it has paid more than $83 million to more than 85,000 people.
The act provides 11 additional weeks of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Benefits. It also reestablishes the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, which gives unemployment recipients an additional $300 weekly benefit.
Anyone filing a new PUA claim is required to go through ID.me verification. It s a federal requirement that greatly cuts down on fraudulent activity. Claimants have 21 days to complete the verification process. Payment won t be released until it is done.
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Unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania: how to claim the weekly payment
Residents who have exhausted their state or federal jobless payments can use the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programme to extend the weekly payments.
SAUL LOEB
AFP
As the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic continue to strangle the American jobs market, more people are being forced to rely on
unemployment insurance to ensure that they can pay the bills. In Pennsylvania, the
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programme, or
PEUC for short, has proved to be a vital lifeline.
The weekly payments are funded by the emergency stimulus bill signed into law in late December as the additional unemployment benefits were on the brink of running out. The PEUC programme provides an additional 24 weeks of support for those who have exhausted their state benefits.
Updated: 6:36 AM EST Feb 19, 2021 The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry provided an update last week on issues and fixes related to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.The information below is from L&I:PUAThe PUA program extension rollout on Jan. 22 has alerted L&I of multiple issues with our system that we are working to correct.Issues and fixesIf eligible, funds were released for claimants who previously filed for the weeks of Jan 2., Jan. 9 and Jan. 16.Some claimants were experiencing a USCIS issue related to residency (permanent resident versus U.S. citizen) which is actively being worked on.We added the 2020 base year for claimants who applied for PUA after Dec. 27. New claimants will receive individual messaging on next steps through the PUA dashboard. Once verified and any outstanding issues have been resolved, payments will be released.L&I is actively working to resolve the outstanding
Phase 2 federal unemployment rollout to start Saturday for roughly 290K Coloradans
State also expecting another gap in March due to delays with new federal package
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A placard of rules for customers to follow hangs on the door of a boutique as retail businesses are allowed to open their doors to customers for the first time in almost two months with the expiration of the city s stay-at-home order to check the spread of the new coronavirus Saturday, May 9, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)