Jobless claims remain high in Maine as pandemic rages
Nearly 3,000 more state unemployment claims were filed last week as President Trump casts doubt on an aid package that would benefit tens of thousands of jobless Mainers.
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Nearly 3,000 new state unemployment insurance claims were filed last week as jobless Mainers await the outcome of a congressional COVID-19 stimulus package that would extend critical federal aid that is set to expire in days.
About 2,950 claims for state unemployment benefits were filed last week, the Maine Department of Labor reported Wednesday. It was the third week in a row that initial state jobless claims hovered around 3,000, the highest weekly totals since July.
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From money for shuttered performance venues to aid for farmers, Iowans are looking forward to receiving long-awaited help from a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package that won congressional approval this week.
The sweeping package comes more than nine months into the coronavirus pandemic, sending millions of Americans direct payments and providing a fresh round of forgivable loans to thousands of small businesses struggling to stay open.
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.
2:30 AM MYT WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) The number of initial jobless claims in the United States fell to 803,000 last week, the first decline in three weeks, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday. In the week ending Dec. 19, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits decreased by 89,000 from the previous week s upwardly revised level of 892,000, according to a report released by the department s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The decline came after the number rose for two consecutive weeks amid surging COVID-19 cases. The previous week s figure marked the highest in three months, indicating a disruption of the labor market s recovery.
Breaking down what’s in second stimulus package: who gets what?
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The Internal Revenue Service even now has listed a group of reasons for why the dollar amount of your Economic Impact Payment could be, as the IRS delicately puts it, different than anticipated. (Dreamstime/TNS)TNS
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A second wave of federal coronavirus relief totaling $900 billion could begin flowing to millions of Americans as soon as the year’s end, nearly nine months after Congress passed the original pandemic relief package known as the CARES Act.
Here’s what the COVID relief package part of a $2.3 trillion spending bill could mean for you, your family, your home or your business.