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Adrienne Roberts and Sarah Alvarez
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A stimulus package signed into law Thursday by President Joe Biden will extend unemployment benefits through the fall, bringing relief to the hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents who have been out of work in the pandemic.
As thousands of new jobless claims roll in weekly and the state’s Unemployment Insurance Agency works to implement the unemployment extensions in the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan called the American Rescue Plan, it is still working through a backlog of claims.
There are 30,000 people throughout the state waiting, sometimes for months, for the unemployment benefits they most likely should have already received.
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On March 10, 2021, the House of Representatives passed the $1.9
trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan (the Plan ). Both chambers of Congress have signed off on the
legislation, and President Biden is expected to sign it by Friday,
March 12, 2021. Once in effect, the Plan will provide many
Americans with another round of stimulus checks, extend enhanced
unemployment benefits, increase or otherwise modify certain tax
credits, and significantly expand health care subsidies such as COBRA, among providing other relief. This
article provides a summary of the
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On March 19th, 2020, the downtown Milwaukee Punch Bowl Social laid off 91 employees. File photo by Jennifer Rick.
A series of new unemployment benefits are set to become available to Wisconsinites after President
Joe Biden signed the latest round of federal COVID-19 relief into law Thursday.
The plan includes an extension of enhanced unemployment benefits through Sept. 6 and increases the amount of weeks unemployment recipients are eligible for different unemployment programs.
The state Department of Workforce Development (DWD) said Friday it is awaiting guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and is unable to give a timeline for when the new benefits will be available.