The requirement will affect all unemployment programs, including unemployment compensation and its extension, the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, officials said.
As North Carolina nears $12 billion in state and federal unemployment-insurance benefits for the COVID-19 pandemic, the state reached another daily pandemic low in filed claims over the weekend.
There were 740 claims filed Saturday, which was 59 below the previous daily low of 799 on May 15.
It is the fourth consecutive Saturday that has yielded a daily low.
Kerry McComber, a spokesperson for the N.C. Division of Employment Security, said Tuesday that the division generally has lower claims and call volume on Saturdays. Itâs the weekend, and the new benefit week begins on Sunday.
Outside the recent claim drop-offs on Saturdays, daily claims in North Carolina have stabilized in the 2,000 to 3,200 range during May.
By Jim Turner/News Service of Florida
May 24, 2021
TALLAHASSEE - Florida plans to stop providing $300 a week in additional federal unemployment benefits as it pushes for people to return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity announced Monday that starting June 26 the state will no longer participate in the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program. State and business officials have argued that, when added to state unemployment payments, the $300 a week in federal aid is keeping people from returning to jobs.
After a report Friday showed that an estimated 487,000 Floridians were unemployed in April out of a workforce of 10.24 million, the Department of Economic Opportunity called Monday’s move “another key step to returning more Floridians to work,” dubbing it the “Return to Work” initiative.
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