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Each day, The Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal and Anderson Independent Mail publish a live-updates-style story with the latest COVID-19 news relevant to our communities in the Upstate. This is our COVID-19 news roundup for May 9, 2021.
DHEC announces 378 new confirmed cases for Sunday
The state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported 378 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 8 new deaths statewide on Sunday. The agency also reported 203 probable new cases.
Of the 14,965 COVID-19 test results reported by DHEC on Sunday, 5.7% were positive.
Greenville County had 95 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. The most populated of the state s 46 counties, Greenville accounts for 7.7% of the state s population according to Census Bureau estimates, and it accounted for 25% of the confirmed cases reported Sunday.
The
Division of Workforce Serviceshas prepared a fact sheet on Governor Hutchinson’s decision to stop added federal pandemic unemployment assistance on June 26, or 10 weeks early.
It indicates the decision will cut payments to as many as 47,000 jobless Arkansans. The Division hasn’t yet computed the amount of money to be given up by the state. Payments in programs differ, but those 47,000 all currently qualify for the $300 weekly pandemic unemployment payments. That means a potential total of $3,000 for the 10 weeks lost. If all the 47,000 were to remain unemployed and qualify for payments for the life of the program, that’s more than $140 million in lost spending power in the Arkansas economy.
From The Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY Governor Kay Ivey announced Monday that Alabama will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs effective June 19, 2021, including:
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), which provides for an additional $300 weekly payment to recipients of unemployment compensation.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides benefits for those who would not usually qualify, such as the self-employed, gig workers, and part-time workers,
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provides for an extension of benefits once regular benefits have been exhausted, and
Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), which provides an additional $100 benefit to certain people with mixed earnings.
Alabama to end participation in federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs
This is effective June 19, 2021.
Posted: May 10, 2021 2:11 PM
Updated: May 11, 2021 12:31 PM
Posted By: Ashley Thusius, Megan Reyna
Alabama will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs effective June 19, 2021, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Monday.
This includes the following programs:
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), which provides for an additional $300 weekly payment to recipients of unemployment compensation.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides benefits for those who would not usually qualify, such as the self-employed, gig workers, and part-time workers,
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provides for an extension of benefits once regular benefits have been exhausted, and
Alabama to exit federal pandemic unemployment compensation programs this summer
Alabama will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs effective June 19.
Posted: May 10, 2021 2:21 PM
Updated: May 10, 2021 4:32 PM
Posted By: Zac Carlisle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTVA) - Alabama will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs effective June 19.
Ivey s office released the following announcement on Monday.
Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Alabama will end its participation in all federally funded pandemic unemployment compensation programs effective June 19, 2021 including:
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), which provides for an additional $300 weekly payment to recipients of unemployment compensation.