The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which funds the program, notified DWD Friday, Sept. 11, that federal guidance requesting the money be paid back is unlikely. The benefit, created by the Trump administration under the Lost Wage Assistance program, supplements weekly unemployment benefits by $300 a week for six weeks in […]
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Caleb Frostman, secretary of the state Department of Workforce Development, estimated in an interview Tuesday, Sept. 1, that it would be about six to eight weeks before tens of thousands of unemployed workers in Wisconsin start receiving a new $300 unemployment insurance supplement created by the Trump administration. Under that […]