Annie Frodeman, who cobbled together work shifts registering emergency patients at a hospital, and as an airport ramp agent, in her airport safety vest near her home outside Burlington, Vt., July 21, 2020. (John Tully/The New York Times) Annie Frodeman often worked 40 hours a week or more — full […]
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Happy Wednesday! You’ve made it to the middle of the week. Treat yourself by taking a break and reading our latest newsletter. LATEST ON UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS More than 4 million Californians are paying their bills with help from the special $600 weekly unemployment payments Congress authorized in March as the […]
Your state’s Unemployment Insurance benefits may be expiring soon if you were approved at the start of the pandemic. If you’re still out of work and unsure how you’ll pay the bills when your benefits run out, a low-grade panic may be setting in. Here are two important things you […]
Congress returns to work this week with a critical deadline looming: the expiration of an additional $600 per week in federal unemployment benefits it created to help workers through the coronavirus pandemic. More than 25 million unemployed people are receiving some form of unemployment benefits. But the additional $600 weekly […]
Within two or three days of the benefit’s expiration, he said, applications tripled. When the government approved the $300 replacement, he said, the numbers began to dwindle, even though most states have yet to start making the payments. “It’s free money, so they feel they don’t have to work anymore,” […]
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 […]