‘Diddy’ delivers, chicken coops, New Year’s Eve restrictions: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY
Alabama
Gadsden: The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alabama topped 2,800 this week, as recent days have shown a steady climb and new record high inpatient counts – 2,804 on Tuesday – as the surge in cases continues. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the University of Alabama’s Division of Infectious Diseases director, said Alabama now is third in the nation in COVID-19 hospitalizations per capita, behind Nevada and Arizona. She said Alabama is sixth in the nation in the number of COVID-19 cases per capita, after falling out of the top 10. On Christmas Eve, the number hospitalized was 2,458 across the state; on Christmas Day and on Saturday, it was 2,516, according to statistics published by BamaTracker. On Sunday, the number rose to 2,631; and it jumped significantly by Monday, to 2,802 people hospitalized.
The state’s jobs agency had not posted a timetable about the extended benefits, and no formal announcement had been made about whether Floridians will be covered for the current week because of when the $900 billion federal package was signed.
They’re in crisis and they don’t know what to do | The wait for unemployment benefits continues in the DMV
Days after President Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, people seeking unemployment benefits continued to wait for payments to be issued. Author: Tom Dempsey (WUSA) Updated: 11:11 PM EST December 30, 2020
WASHINGTON People depending on unemployment benefits continued to wait for payments on Wednesday after two key programs expired over the weekend before President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package.
The stimulus plan passed by Congress earlier this month extends the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs, which assist people who had COVID-19 related job losses or reduction in incomes.
Modified: 12/31/2020 10:58:57 AM
New Hampshire will not face a lapse in pandemic-related unemployment benefits this week, a state official said Monday – despite the delay of President Donald Trump in signing the latest aid package.
Trump signed the latest COVID-19-related relief package on Sunday evening, a week after Congress passed the bill. Among the items in the bill was an extension of two key expansions of unemployment benefits.
Those expanded benefits, which were passed in March at the outset of the pandemic, were set to expire Dec. 26. Because Trump signed the bill Dec. 27, after a week of criticizing it, many had feared that the extension would be delayed by a week.