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WASHINGTON — Federal coronavirus unemployment insurance is scheduled to expire at the end of this month as the pandemic makes a resurgence in parts of the U.S. and 25 million out-of-work...
- Senior National Political Reporter
Sep 6, 2021 · Nearly 18 months after Congress came to the rescue of jobless Americans, its historic expansion of the nation’s unemployment benefits system expired nationwide this weekend. Lawmakers, who ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Congress could allow the $600 a week unemployment benefits to expire. These enhanced benefits are slated to expire tomorrow, and Congress doesn’t have to extend these supplemental benefits.
- Zack Friedman
Current Status of Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefits: Permanent-Law Programs and COVID-19 Pandemic Response. The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is constructed as a joint federal-state partnership, in which the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program and the UC benefit are the foundation of the UI system.
Jul 23, 2020 · Under the Republican plan, the federal government would stop supplementing workers’ state unemployment benefits with the weekly $600 lump sum. It would first replace that sum with a $200...
Jul 31, 2020 · And in a delay that’s surprising even for Congress, lawmakers’ talks over extending the weekly $600 boost in UI — and approving broader stimulus — remain stalled.
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All states ended LWA payments by September 5, 2020. The Continued Assistance Act reauthorizes FPUC at $300 per week for weeks of unemployment beginning after December 26, 2020, and ending on or before March 14, 2021. After March 13, 2021 (March 14, 2021, in New York), no FPUC benefits are payable.