These 16 states are ending $300 unemployment benefits this summer
Fox Business 2 hrs ago Megan Henney
A growing number of GOP-led states are planning to end supplemental unemployment benefits designed to help out-of-work Americans weather the coronavirus pandemic, a move they say will help businesses struggling to hire employees.
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At least 16 states decided over the past week to prematurely cut off the sweetened aid, which provided an extra $300 a week on top of regular state unemployment benefits. The supplemental benefit is not slated to expire until Sept. 6, 2021.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming announced they will stop giving unemployed workers an extra $300 in benefits sometime over the summer.
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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 2, 2021, file photo, a woman, wearing a protective mask due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, walks past the signs of an employment agency, in Manchester, N.H. Companies are advertising more jobs than they were before the pandemic, when the unemployment rate was a 50-year low of 3.5%. So they clearly want to add workers. Yet hiring stumbled in April because many employers couldn t find as many as they needed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Governor Brad Little’s plan to end special federal unemployment benefits to Idahoans next month could boot more than half of current filers off benefits.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday defended himself against critics who say expanded unemployment benefits offered in the COVID-19 relief bill passed in March are keeping Americans from taking new jobs. Gavino Garay reports.
Gov. Kristi Noem and the Department of Labor and Regulation announced Wednesday that South Dakota will end its participation in the federal governmentâs pandemic-related unemployment assistance programs effective June 26.
South Dakota will continue to pay regular state claims.
âBusinesses across the state continue to say they would grow and expand if it wasnât for the lack of workers. Help wanted signs line our streets,â state Labor and Regulation Secretary Marcia Hultman said in a press release. âSouth Dakota is and has been âOpen for Business.â Ending these programs is a necessary step towards recovery, growth, and getting people back to work.â
Unemployment Claims Filed for Week Ending May 8
News StaffMay 14, 2021Business
Weekly Unemployment Numbes
PIERRE, S.D. – During the week of May 2-8, a total of 266 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the Department of Labor and Regulation. This is an increase of 2 claims from the prior week’s total of 264.
The latest number of continued state claims is 2,576 for the week ending May 1, a decrease of 626 from the prior week’s total of 3,202. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
For the week ending May 8, a total of $453,000 was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $815,000 in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $78,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $316,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
What States Are Cutting Jobless Benefits?
A growing number of GOP-led states are planning to end supplemental unemployment benefits designed to help out-of-work Americans weather the coronavirus pandemic, a move they say will help businesses struggling to hire employees.
At least 16 states decided over the past week to prematurely cut off the sweetened aid, which provided an extra $300 a week on top of regular state unemployment benefits. The supplemental benefit is not slated to expire until Sept. 6, 2021.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming announced they will stop giving unemployed workers an extra $300 in benefits sometime over the summer.