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The lawsuit claims Gov. Kim Reynolds violated an Iowa statute that requires the state to pay out all available federal unemployment assistance to eligible Iowans.
The lawsuit contends that Gov. Kim Reynolds' decision to pull out of federal pandemic assistance deprived 30,000 Iowans of benefits.
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A class action lawsuit accuses Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds of violating state law and depriving up to 55,000 Iowans of “life-sustaining benefits”.
A potential class-action lawsuit claims Gov. Kim Reynolds’ refusal to pay pandemic-related jobless assistance to 30,000 Iowans deprived those individuals of “life-sustaining benefits.”
Des Moines, IA- Two Iowans have filed a lawsuit accusing Governor Reynolds of violating state law when she ended federal unemployment benefits that were expanded at the start of the pandemic. Radio Iowa reports that Americans who were eligible for unemployment benefits were getting an extra $300 a week under a program first approved during the Trump Administration. The number of weeks someone was eligible for unemployment was also extended. That federal expansion ended in September of 2021, but Governor Reynolds and some other Republican governors ended it a few months earlier, arguing the exp...