The state says unemployment relief soon will be in the hands of workers growing increasingly desperate for help.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says it expects to finalize updates to its systems to allow more than 95,000 Ohioans to begin claiming benefits from the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program this weekend.
The program was one of many created to help workers hurt by the pandemic. The money is from the $900 billion stimulus package signed into law by former President Donald Trump just after Christmas that extends many of the federal programs geared toward helping the unemployed.
This program provides an additional 11 weeks of benefits for eligible people who have exhausted their traditional unemployment benefits. These workers also are eligible for $300-a-week supplemental payments.
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During the week of Jan. 17-23, a total of 472 initial weekly claims for state unemployment benefits were processed by the Department of Labor and Regulation. This is a decrease of 278 claims from the prior week’s total of 750.
A total of $1.2 million was paid out in state benefits, in addition to $1.1 million in Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), $8,000 in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and $222,000 in Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
The Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund balance was $157.6 million on Jan. 24.
The latest number of continued state claims is 4,957 for the week ending Jan. 16, a decrease of 718 from the prior week’s total of 5,675. This indicates the number of unemployed workers eligible for and receiving benefits after their initial claim.
AUGUSTA For the week ending January 23, the Maine Department of Labor recorded about 2,800 initial claims filed for state unemployment insurance, and 400 initial claims filed for federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). In total, approximately 3,200 people were filing an initial claim or reopening their unemployment claim.
About 17,400 weekly certifications, or continued claims, were filed last week for state unemployment, with another 12,800 weekly certifications filed under PUA. In addition, about 18,100 weekly certifications were filed for the federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Weekly certifications must be filed by claimants every week in order to continue to receive unemployment benefits.
Maine typically, according to the Department, sees increases in state unemployment claims this time of year due to seasonal layoffs that occur every winter, for example in Retail Trade, Accommodations and Food Services, Construction, and Administrative and
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