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$300 weekly unemployment boost dries up (Minnesota, probably most of U.S. too) [View all]
$300 weekly unemployment boost dries up, MPR News, 9/17/20
A $300 weekly boost in unemployment aid has now expired in Minnesota.
Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove said Thursday that the state has exhausted the six weeks in federal help that was approved earlier. He said an attempt to get an extension is unlikely to be successful.
Grove said the last payout was made recently. Minnesota didn’t get approval for the program until late August, but it delivered the assistance retroactively to those who qualified. Minnesotans eligible for the benefit should see the last payments come in this week.
When the Lost Wages Assistance program was announced, officials expected the help to be temporary because it draws from the same federal emergency account used to respond to natural disasters, which are being relied on now to respond to hurricanes and wildfires.
The assistance replaced a more-generous benefit of $600 dollars a week that went away in July
A little more: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/17/300-weekly-unemployment-boost-dries-up
A $300 weekly boost in unemployment aid has now expired in Minnesota.
Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove said Thursday that the state has exhausted the six weeks in federal help that was approved earlier. He said an attempt to get an extension is unlikely to be successful.
Grove said the last payout was made recently. Minnesota didn’t get approval for the program until late August, but it delivered the assistance retroactively to those who qualified. Minnesotans eligible for the benefit should see the last payments come in this week.
When the Lost Wages Assistance program was announced, officials expected the help to be temporary because it draws from the same federal emergency account used to respond to natural disasters, which are being relied on now to respond to hurricanes and wildfires.
The assistance replaced a more-generous benefit of $600 dollars a week that went away in July
A little more: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/17/300-weekly-unemployment-boost-dries-up
Long story short: The extra federal $600/week unemployment payments ended at the end of July. It was replaced by $300/week. Now that's gone. Meaning the only unemployment people get is from the traditional state programs (which typically pay about half of what people earned at their prior job for the U.S. on average, I don't know that the Minnesota level is) and the federal PUA for gig and contract workers.
I don't know what the situation is in other states, but I can't think of why they wouldn't be running out too.
No $1200 stimulus checks on the horizon either.
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