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The IRS has now provided instructions to help people claim missing stimulus check for themselves and their dependents. If you haven’t got your missing stimulus payment (economic impact payment) for yourself or your dependents by the start of 2022 the IRS is recommending claiming the payments as recovery rebate credits …
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) administers the state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and maintains the IT programs/systems and verification process for filing and paying unemployment insurance claims. This also includes management and payment of the federally funded enhanced benefit programs – PUA, PEUC and FPUC – …
The Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) administers the states Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and maintains the IT programs/systems and verification process for filing and paying unemployment insurance claims. How Much Unemployment Can I Get? With the expiry the pandemic unemployment programs, only traditional/regular state unemployment is available for full or …
The past few years were unique and difficult year for many reasons. One group in particular was hit hard – American workers, especially those who lost their jobs directly or indirectly due to COVID. Fortunately the government acted and put in several enhanced benefit programs to provide unemployment benefits and …
The Arkansas Division of Workforce Services (ADWS) administers Arkansas’ Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and provides unemployment insurance benefits to those eligible, and maintains the IT programs/systems for filing unemployment insurance claims and fraud detection. This also includes management and payment of the federally funded enhanced benefit programs – PUA, PEUC …
I have noticed several comments and the mixed messages people are receiving from state unemployment agencies saying that they have rolled out the new weekly $300 FPUC payment, but yet many claimants won’t get this payment for several weeks! Especially those who exhausted there benefits before the new extensions were …
There has been a lot of debate over the last few months on if another stimulus check payment will be made in 2022 or even in 2023 as the economy worsens and inflation takes a heavy toll on household budgets. You can see past updates below on the various stimulus …
The IRS has stopped making catch-up or retroactive stimulus payments for individual adults and their dependents. Eligible tax tax filers who didn’t get the full amount of the third Economic Impact Payments for themselves or their dependents (existing and new) must file a 2021 tax return – even if you …
The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program, originally designed for those who had exhausted their regular allocation of state unemployment benefits, will end by September 6th. Under the Biden Stimulus Package (ARPA) the total number of covered weeks in the PEUC program was increased to 53 weeks. This didn’t include the …
Enhanced unemployment benefits have been extended twice in 2021 following the initial rollout and funding in 2020. You can jump to the relevant extension via the links below to get more details on the claimant actions and key dates around getting unemployment benefits under each of the extensions. These are …
With an 11 week extension of funding approved for enhanced unemployment programs under the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 (COVID Relief Bill), key end dates of the program have been extended as outlined in the table below per Department or Labor Guidelines: Existing or expired claim balances …
The US Department of Labor (DOL) has now issued formal guidelines to state unemployment agencies for paying out funds under the COVID relief bill extensions (Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020) to the PUA, PEUC and additional $300 FPUC program. This includes: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Extension Updates …
With the expiry of the MEUC program in September 2021, many claimants were left high and dry as several states had yet to make partial or initial payments. Fortunately in many states eligible claimants can apply (and provide required documentation) to get current and retroactive back payments for covered weeks. …
The Biden ARP stimulus bill continued the supplementary $300 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payment that was already in place for another 25 weeks. In most states this will cover the benefit weeks ending March 20th, 2021 to September 4th, 2021. However per the table below many states are ending …