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At least 11 states are starting this week to pay the $ 300 extra dollars in weekly unemployment benefits under the stimulus agreement of $ 900, 000 millions of dollars signed at the end of 2020. New York , California , Arizona, Tennessee and North Carolina are the states that until Tuesday have sent the extra unemployment benefit to their citizens.
Michele Evermore, policy analyst at the National Law Project of Employment told Yahoo Money that “most states will be delivering the Extra unemployment benefits in mid-January. ”
During this first week at least 11 states will implement the extra payment of $ 300 dollars according to the count made by the site Unemploymentpua.com .
According to a Brookings report it is estimated that at least 14 millions of Americans who are without employment will receive $ 300 additional dollars per week in Federal Unemployment Compensation by Pandemic (FPUC) during 11 weeks until 14 of March. Both workers with Unemployment Insurance (UI) as well as those who receive Assistance Pandemic Unemployment (PUA) will receive the extra pay added to their benefits basic weekly unemployment rates.
New York began to pay the $ 300 extra dollars to unemployment beneficiaries in all programs, while California has begun to pay benefits to workers with unemployment insurance (UI) but not yet to unemployed workers who receive PUA and PEUC. About 1.3 million Californians will receive the extra benefit this week, according to a statement from California Department of Employment Development .
Extra payments of $ 300 dollars will not be retroactive and will start from the week of 29 December. The weeks after the expiration of the $ 600 extra dollars under the CARES Act and the $ 300 extra under the Lost Wage Assistance (LWA) program are not covered by current legislation. Although the benefits of this program were quickly distributed in 2020 states as Nevada , Virginia and Wisconsin took more than two months to implement.
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