Pa. set to resume COVID-19 unemployment programs December 29, 2020
9:54 am The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is set to resume making payments through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs but could see a gap in benefits after a delay in approval by the federal government.
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Dec 29, 2020 8:01 AM
Early Monday morning, President Donald Trump signed a bill approving a $900 billion Covid-19 relief package, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry is getting ready for extensions for CARES act programs that are expected to help more than 509,000 people in Pennsylvania.
In a news release on Monday, acting L&I secretary Jennifer Berrier said that the state is getting ready for the CARES act extensions of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs. The programs, which expired last week, are meant to help assist workers who lost their jobs due to Covid-19 who are not eligible for other unemployment compensation programs, and providing additional weeks of benefits for workers who have exhausted their Unemployment Compensation Benefits. Berrier did say that it may be a while before payments can be made through the programs.
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Jennifer Berrier, deputy of secretary for Safety and Labor-Management Relations, speaks during a Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee public hearing on wage growth in Braddock in January 2019.
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Officials urged out-of-work Pennsylvanians to seek assistance through a variety of programs that can augment unemployment assistance as many face new economic challenges during the covid-19 pandemic.
“The first thing that people think of when they lose their job or they have reduced hours at their place of employment is unemployment compensation, which is understandable,” Department of Labor and Industry Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier said. “However, there’s other forms of assistance out there, which is why the Department of Labor and Industry is working with our partners to make sure that out-of-work Pennsylvanians