Dec 22, 2020
The Oregon Employment Department is pleased that Congress has passed an extension of federal benefit programs, including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC). Without an extension of PUA or PEUC, approximately 70,000 Oregonians would have lost a vital safety net after Dec. 26. We are glad Oregonians no longer have to worry about an abrupt end to this critical financial support.
We are moving quickly to make changes and implement the federal relief programs recently passed. Right now, we are waiting to receive rules and instructions from the U.S. Department of Labor. The holidays may impact how quickly the U.S. Dept. of Labor gets guidance to us; however, we will work through the holidays and do what we can to make programmatic changes and get benefits out the door as quickly as possible.
When will the $300 unemployment benefit start? Officials don’t know CNBC 12/23/2020
It would be available to more than 20 million people collecting benefits.
State labor officials don t know when it may arrive. President Donald Trump must first sign the bill into law. He s threatening not to do so in order to send larger stimulus checks to households.
How $600 stimulus checks and boosted unemployment benefits help the overall economy
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More than 20 million Americans are eagerly anticipating a $300 boost to their weekly unemployment benefits.
But it s unclear when exactly that cash will hit workers bank accounts.
Labor officials in several states including California, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas and Utah say they need input from the U.S. Department of Labor on how to implement and disburse the payments.
Unemployment earners in Delaware may temporarily go without benefits with new stimulus Sarah Gamard, Delaware News Journal
Headlines December 23, 2020
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Should the latest federal stimulus package be signed into law, unemployed Delaware residents who need to reenroll for benefits may have to wait an undetermined amount of time after benefits expired this weekend.
Unemployment Division Director Darryl Scott, in an interview with Delaware Online/The News Journal this past week, said he could not provide an exact length of time that those who have to reenroll will have to wait before receiving the expected round of $300 weekly payments that will last through mid-March.
US layoffs remain elevated as 803,000 seek jobless aid - Casper, WY Oil City News oilcity.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oilcity.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs.
The latest figure, released Wednesday by the Labor Department, shows that many employers are still cutting jobs as the pandemic tightens business restrictions and leads many consumers to stay home. Before the virus struck, jobless claims typically numbered around 225,000 a week before shooting up to 6.9 million in early spring when the virus and efforts to contain it flattened the economy. The pace of layoffs has since declined but remains historically high in the face of the resurgence of COVID-19 cases.