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- What Has Changed About Unemployment Benefits in Kentucky?
- Which Benefit Programs Have Been Extended?
- Do I Have to File A New Claim?
- When Does The 11-Week Extension Begin?
- Has Kentucky Started Issuing Payments on The Newly Extended Benefit Programs?
- What Are The New Documentation Requirements For Pua Claims?
- Has Kentucky Started Issuing The $300 Supplement to Weekly Benefits?
- Do I Have to Do Anything to Receive The $300 Supplement?
- Is The $300 Weekly Payments Retroactive from When The $600 Stopped Last Summer?
- What Is The New Program, Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation?
The coronavirus relief bill passed in December extends some existing benefit programs, creates a new benefit program and establishes $300 weekly supplement payments, in addition to other changes.
Both the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, or PEUC, programs were extended by 11 weeks. PUA originally provided up to 39 weeks of benefits to those who normally wouldn’t qualify for state unemployment, including gig economy workers and people with limited work histories. PEUC initially offer...
The need to file a new claim depends on the program through which someone was receiving benefits. 1. PUA recipients need to file a new claim. No new PUA claims will be accepted after March 13, 2021. As before, people will continue to request their benefits every two weeks. 2. PEUC recipients who ran out of benefit weeks before the week ending Dec. ...
The extension applies to an 11-week period starting with the week ending Jan. 2, 2021, through mid-March. The Kentucky Labor Cabinet says it cannot apply any of the 11-week extension for weeks before that period, even if someone exhausted their benefits before then.
Yes, as of the weekend of Jan. 16-17, Kentucky’s unemployment system resumed payments for both the PUA and PEUC programs.
To weed out fraud, the latest relief bill requires additional documentation from PUA recipients. Filers may be asked to show proof of employment, which can be proved with paycheck stubs, earnings and leave statements that show an employer’s name and address and W-2 forms, according to the state. Those asked for proof of a planned start of employmen...
Yes, as of mid-January, the state has started issuing this supplemental benefit. Those receiving weekly benefits through PUA, PEUC, regular state unemployment insurance and other benefit programs should receive an additional $300 each week. This bonus benefit, provided through the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, was a product of...
No action is required to secure the weekly bonus. It should be triggered automatically. Much like the $600 supplement, the $300 supplement will be paid after the underlying weekly benefit and come as a separate deposit. There is no minimum benefit requirement, as there was for the Lost Wages Assistance program, which offered $400 in weekly suppleme...
No, the $300 isn’t payable for any of the weeks between when the $600 expired (in July 2020) and when the new program began (Dec. 26, 2020). The $300 weekly supplement isn’t payable past the check for the week ending March 13, even if people receive further benefits into early April 2021 during the "phaseout period."
The Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation program, or MEUC, newly offered as part of the second relief package, aims to help workers who have both traditional W-2 wages (which typically qualifies them for regular state unemployment benefits) and self-employment income (such as those in the gig economy). These out-of-work individuals may have recei...
Aug 4, 2021 · The Governor also announced that the federal unemployment insurance trust fund loan the commonwealth relied heavily upon to pay Kentuckians their benefits during the COVID-19 global health pandemic has been retired. The Kentucky Labor Cabinet paid the balance on a $505.7 million loan July 22, utilizing one-time American Rescue Plan funds.
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Aug 21, 2020 · “This program will allow about 80,000 Kentuckians receiving at least $100 a week unemployment benefits for the weeks of July 26-Aug. 15 to receive an additional payment of $400, if they are unemployed or partially unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Gov. Beshear said.
Jan 8, 2021 · In the federal unemployment claim data released Thursday, Kentucky saw more than 16,000 new unemployment claims filed in the week ending Jan. 2, up 3,600 claims from the week before.
