INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Eric J. Holcomb last week announced that Indiana will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment insurance programs effective June 19.
The Answer
Yes, it appears that each state can decide if it will stop offering the expanded federal pandemic unemployment benefits.
However, there could be a legal challenge related to the ending of benefits for people who are not eligible for regular unemployment benefits like gig workers and the self-employed.
What We Found
Over the last few weeks, the governors of 24 states, including Indiana, have announced plans to end all or some of the additional unemployment benefits provided by the federal government during the pandemic. Most states are ending the benefits some time in June.
Holcomb made the announcement on May 17 that the benefits in Indiana would end June 19. In addition, he is reinstating the requirement for people getting unemployment payments to be actively searching for full-time work as of June 1.
When are weekly unemployment benefits in Florida ending? Deadline and reason
Florida is joining 22 other states in ending $300 weekly federal unemployment booster payments to encourage residents to fill job vacancies.
MANDEL NGAN
AFP
Florida announced Monday that the state will join 22 other states ceasing participation in
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program (FPUC), the $300 weekly extra payment to those receiving unemployment benefits. Unlike the majority of those states,
it will keep other federal unemployment benefits.
Three weeks ago, Montana began
a trend among Republican-led states of announcing that they would no longer participate in some or all of the federal unemployment programs set up under the CARES Act last year to help the millions of Americans
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