Oklahoma is offering $1,200 to a limited number of unemployed workers who head back to work Dale Denwalt, Oklahoman
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Oklahoma will pay people $1,200 to get off unemployment benefits and start working.
Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order creating the Return to Work Incentive, which incentivizes finding a job instead of continuing to claim unemployment benefits.
The first 20,000 people who qualify and apply for the program will receive $1,200 after completing six weeks of a new job. Our challenge is not to get businesses back open; we ve done that. It s been getting employees back to work, Stitt said Monday. Without a doubt, one of the factors causing this has been the continued extension of extra federal benefits.
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Updated: 10:27 AM CDT Apr 17, 2021 Associated Press Virus-related claims for unemployment benefits, including initial and continuing claims and the four-week moving average, have increased in Oklahoma according to the state Employment Security Commission.Commission director Shelley Zumwalt said the increase is due to people who lost jobs at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago reapplying, as required, after 52 weeks.“Last week, we saw a significant increase in initial unemployment claims, which is largely due to a number of claimants refiling for unemployment after their benefit year expired,” Zumwalt said in a statement Thursday, Initial claims for the week ending April 10 totaled 17,997, or 4,145 more than the previous week’s total of 13,852, according to the commission,Continuing claims rose by 1,367 to 25,593, according to the commission report, and the four-week moving average of initial claims rose by 2,771 to 11,956.The state heal
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After a year of unemployment, out of work Oklahomans will have to refile a claim in order to receive another year of benefits.
“We’re seeing those initial claims rise because people are filing a new initial claim, although we aren’t necessarily adding those people to the unemployment numbers, but there is some numbers that are going up,” Oklahoma Employment Security Commission executive director Shelley Zumwalt said.
For the week of April 10, 17,997 people applied for unemployment. The figure is 4,145 more claims filed than the week before.
These numbers are leading OESC in a new direction: To try and help people get back to work.
It is no surprise that the pandemic s effects are still being felt one year later, but what is shocking is that small business owners did not think they would be in the same predicament they were in last year when it comes to hiring and staffing potential employees.
By the end of 2018, the unemployment rate in Onslow County sat at an even 5%. As 2019 came to a close, the rate dropped to 3.9% where it hovered around that number for the first few months of 2020. Once the pandemic hit, that number skyrocketed to 12.9% for April and May, before gradually decreasing throughout the remainder of the year.