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LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has started issuing $300 weekly Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments. An...

Claimants do not need to take any action to receive this additional weekly benefit, it will be paid automatically after they certify. The additional payment comes from an extension of the federal COVID-19 relief package passed in December.

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Differentiating 'Extended Benefits' and CARES Act program extensions DEO has begun implementing additional unemployment benefits, which has brought some confusion for claimants to know what they can apply for. Author: Josslyn Howard Updated: 7:55 PM EST January 6, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Department of Economic Opportunity began implementing additional unemployment benefits, which has brought some confusion for claimants to know for what benefits they can apply. Much of the confusion is between the program “Extended Benefits” (EB), and the extension ...

Text size First, they lost their jobs to the coronavirus pandemic, and now many of the more than 20 million people unemployed in the United States may lose something else: the government aid keeping them afloat through the world's worst Covid-19 outbreak. Congress could still act to extend the benefits provided under the CARES Act rescue package enacted in March, which will otherwise expire on December 26. But for many of the jobless, lawmakers' months of dithering -- along with the indifference of the overstretched US unemployment systems -- have already taken a toll: On hold Before th...