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FGA Research Shows How Ending Unemployment Expansions Can Kickstart America's Economic Comeback

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Thursday, August 26, 2021
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The paper explains how extended benefits used to combat COVID-19-related unemployment closely resemble the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program that followed the Great Recession.

Key Points: 
  • The paper explains how extended benefits used to combat COVID-19-related unemployment closely resemble the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program that followed the Great Recession.
  • Both programs extended or increased unemployment benefits and allowed many Americans to collect more money on welfare than they received from their previous jobs.
  • "In the past and now, ending unemployment extensions is a proven way to kick our country's economy into overdrive.
  • With the end of expanded unemployment benefits, states that chose to continue unemployment benefits will see the economic recovery they delayed by their stubborn continuation of destructive policies.

Wolters Kluwer Offers Guidance on Unemployment Benefits as $600 CARES Act Benefit Approaches July 31 Expiration

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
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This expiration precedes 13 weeks of additional unemployment insurance under the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program that is scheduled to end on or before December 31.

Key Points: 
  • This expiration precedes 13 weeks of additional unemployment insurance under the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program that is scheduled to end on or before December 31.
  • For individuals collecting state unemployment insurance benefits, the benefit amount will decrease.
  • Individuals who are covered under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), and are therefore not eligible for state unemployment benefits or extended benefits, face a greater impact if the $600 benefit is not extended, potentially risking the loss of all benefits.
  • These extended benefits are payable only after an individual has exhausted regular benefits and the 13 weeks of PEUC benefits.