Self-employed, gig workers now able to get extra $300 in jobless aid in Mich.
Workers relying on jobless aid in the form of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation can now reopen or certify their claims for the extra $300 in federal aid authorized by Congress in December.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance is jobless aid available to those not always eligible for unemployment, such as self-employed or gig workers. Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation is for those who exhausted state benefits last year.
People seeking to apply under PUA and PEUC have been delayed since December as they waited for the state Unemployment Insurance Agency to update its system to comply with the federal extension, which also added 11 weeks of benefits.
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February 1, 2021
The Cares Act was temporarily interrupted in December, which many businesses relied on throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now the Continued Assistance Act is extending that and allowing for 11 additional weeks of benefits.
Anyone who claimed benefits using the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation is eligible.
PUA
New PUA claims can now be filed online at michigan.gov/uia.
PUA claimants who exhausted their original entitlement of benefits prior to Dec. 26, 2020 can also now reopen their claim to receive an additional 11 weeks of benefits, payable retroactively, beginning with the week ending Jan. 2, 2021. Claimants have or will receive notification by email, through their MiWAM account or by mail alerting them to the availability of the additional weeks.
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