Food insecurity is a growing concern in Pennsylvania, thanks to the peaking pandemic. And with two federal unemployment compensation programs set to expire Dec. 31, and the lack of a stimulus package from Congress - thus far - the situation could worsen. If Congress fails to act, the consequences could be devastating to a lot of people, said Jenn Berrier, acting secretary of the state Department of Labor & Industry, Thursday morning during L&I s weekly virtual news conference.
The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs have provided UC benefits to workers who have been displaced from their jobs - part time or full time - by the coronavirus pandemic. About 400,000 Pennsylvanians, who are not eligible for regular UC, receive up to 39 weeks of PUA benefits, and an estimated 109,000 PEUC claimants get up to 13 weeks of payments after 20 weeks of regular UC benefits are exhausted.
Federally funded unemployment insurance program triggered off in Maryland
Federally funded unemployment insurance program triggered off in Maryland
By: WMAR STAFF
and last updated 2020-12-21 18:09:32-05
MARYLAND â In the middle of the holiday season, lots of Marylanders are frustrated to learn their unemployment insurance program ended earlier this month.
The U.S. Department of Labor said Maryland has officially âtriggered offâ of the federally funded unemployment insurance program known as âExtended Benefitsâ or âEBâ.
Claimants eligible for EB last week should file to claim federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, but many are left scrambling because those benefits are set to expire this weekend.
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James hasn’t received his unemployment benefits in 78 days.
After being laid off from his bartending jobs at Streets Market and Cranes in March, he successfully applied for unemployment insurance. His benefits ran out after 26 weeks, as is customary, so he applied for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, a 13-week extension of benefits the federal government pays under the CARES Act.
Despite placing more than 300 calls and sending more than 100 emails to unemployment offices in D.C. and Virginia, the Ward 8 resident has yet to see a cent. (James is a pseudonym because he fears being named would mean the unemployment offices would stop returning his emails altogether.)
Coloradoâs unemployment rate for November remained unchanged from the prior month, but that wasnât true in the six-county region.
Statewide, the rate remained at 6.4% over the month, slightly better than the national rate of 6.7%. At the same time, Colorado has seen a job recovery rate that, too, was better than the national rate of 55.6%.
But in the six area counties â Delta, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose and Rio Blanco â the unemployment rate increased by as much as half a percentage point, ranging from 4.7% in November for Rio Blanco County to 6% in Mesa County and Grand Junction, but still lower than the statewide average.