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Two federal unemployment compensation programs will be ending soon, but might be extended as they were in January.
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program for the self-employed and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that provides continuing benefits for those whose regular unemployment compensation has run its course will end for most people in mid-March.
Some recipients might get a few additional weeks, according to Department of Labor & Industry spokeswoman Sarah DeSantis.
The federal government continued PUA and PEUC in January with the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act extension.
The department is hoping the feds will extend those programs again as part of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief bill that has been approved by the House and is now in the Senate.
Democrats’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan would pay more jobless benefits. But some have yet to receive aid from the Covid relief bill passed in December.
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