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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Facing a government shutdown and the expiration of many of the relief programs included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”) enacted in March 2020, on December 21, 2020, Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package as part of a broader $1.4 trillion government funding bill. Along with other relief measures, the new legislation includes additional funding for unemployment benefit programs that had previously been funded in the CARES Act.
Unemployment Benefits under the CARES Act
The CARES Act expanded unemployment insurance benefits available to workers, including through the following three programs: (1) Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (“FPUC”); (2) Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (“PEUC”); and (3) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (“PUA”). In short:
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How the new federal stimulus bill will help unemployed Californians
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, listens as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Sunday, the day Congress reached agreement on a stimulus bill.Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images
The new coronavirus relief bill Congress was expected to approve Monday night will extend through March 14 federal unemployment benefits that had been set to expire Dec. 26, add $300 a week to all federal and state unemployment benefits for up to 11 weeks, and provide an extra $100 a week to some “mixed-income” workers who had earnings from employee wages and self-employment.
Food insecurity is a growing concern in Pennsylvania, thanks to the peaking pandemic. And with two federal unemployment compensation programs set to expire Dec. 31, and the lack of a stimulus package from Congress - thus far - the situation could worsen. If Congress fails to act, the consequences could be devastating to a lot of people, said Jenn Berrier, acting secretary of the state Department of Labor & Industry, Thursday morning during L&I s weekly virtual news conference.
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs have provided UC benefits to workers who have been displaced from their jobs - part time or full time - by the coronavirus pandemic. About 400,000 Pennsylvanians, who are not eligible for regular UC, receive up to 39 weeks of PUA benefits, and an estimated 109,000 PEUC claimants get up to 13 weeks of payments after 20 weeks of regular UC benefits are exhausted.