You may be eligible for food assistance, rent relief, or low-cost healthcare coverage.
CalFresh, also called the SNAP program, provides food benefits for low-income households.
Many Californians are struggling to make ends meet in the face of the pandemic, reckoning with food insecurity, unemployment, and rent payments.
If you re a Californian who needs a guide to get your financial bearings during the pandemic, we ve compiled a list of available resources for you. To make the most of these opportunities, you have to understand what s out there.
State-sponsored stimulus payments
In late February 2021, California passed a coronavirus relief package that includes a $600 one-time payment for nearly 6 million people. Not as many people will receive this payment as those who received the federal stimulus payouts, but people like undocumented immigrants who were left out of previous checks will be eligible. Qualified recipients will get the money 45 days to two months af
Who Needs to Know
All employers attempting to recall or hire employees currently receiving unemployment insurance benefits who may be eligible for extended benefits, and employers who may conduct future furloughs, layoffs, or job eliminations.
Why It Matters
DOL’s guidance explains the extension of COVID-19 unemployment benefits and the additional requirements imposed on individuals and states under the new law.
As previously covered, of the many programs and initiatives included in the $900 billion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), some of the most pertinent for employers included extensions of federal unemployment insurance benefits related to COVID-19. Now, DOL provides additional guidance to states implementing the programs in the form of three updated Unemployment Insurance Program Letters (UIPL) offering insight into how the extensions will work in practice.
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That means that most of you who are eligible for regular unemployment insurance, as well as those who are eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Insurance (PUA) a program that helps the self-employed, contractors, gig workers and others who weren t eligible for regular unemployment can get an extra $300 per week in jobless benefits. This $300 will be added to the unemployment check you already get from your state through March 14.
A number of states including New York, California and Texas have already begun paying the benefits. You can check the status of your state s benefits here. Haven t seen your money yet? Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, says it could take two to three more weeks before you see the payments as states struggle to reprogram their unemployment benefit systems.
Anxiety through the roof : Millions of Californians may lose a week of unemployment benefits
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Unemployment benefits for roughly 12 million Americans have lapsed after President Donald Trump delayed signing the $1.4 trillion COVID-19 relief package Sunday night.
The President signed the package a mere 18 hours after unemployment benefits expired from two government programs under the Care s Act. The first thing that went into my head was, Oh my God, how am I going to pay my bills? said Vanessa Bain, a gig worker based in San Francisco. For the second time during the pandemic, I m finding myself having to defer my car payment, said Bain. I m not able to cover the most basic expenses at this point.
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