A total of nearly 900,000 unemployed people living in 13 Republican states are currently receiving a variety of unemployment benefits that will shrink or not receive at all from next month. The Washington Post analyzed that the unemployed people in these 13 states can receive unemployment benefits and subsidies from June, will be restored to the standard before the emergence of the epidemic. Uber drivers and other self-employed workers in the “gig economy” (self-employed) were included in the unemployment benefits during the epidemic, but some Republican states decided to cancel the benefits.
Republican Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (Kay Ivey) recently issued a statement saying, “The state of Alabama has given 30 days’ advance notice to the federal government, stating that it is now time for everyone to go back to work.”
Including Mississippi, Montana and Tennessee, including the Republican governor pointed out that the epidemic for more than a year, the federal government for the unemployed people generously provide unemployment benefits, resulting in unemployed workers in the epidemic slowed down at this time, the loss of motivation to return to work.
At least 13 Republican states have announced that they will cut benefits for unemployed workers starting next month, including Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.
The Washington Post reports that according to the federal government’s unemployment benefit collection statistics released on the 13th, a total of about 273,000 unemployed people living in Republican-run states will not be able to continue to receive the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits issued by the federal government starting in June.
The report pointed out that these 13 states unemployed people can next receive unemployment benefits, will be restored to the epidemic before the unemployment insurance (unemployment insurance, UI) program system structure.
Another 268,000 unemployed workers currently receiving unemployment benefits will no longer receive any benefits, such as Uber drivers and self-employed workers in the odd-job economy. The “Pandemic Unemployment Assistance” (PUA) federal program, the first to allow self-employers to receive unemployment benefits, but Montana and other Republican governors have announced that it will be canceled.
In Montana, for example, after the withdrawal of the “epidemic unemployment assistance” program, the self-employed, underemployed, independent contractors, and those who are unable to work due to health conditions or epidemic factors will be affected. Those who are unable to work due to health conditions or the epidemic will be affected.
The last group to be hit is the 340,000 unemployed workers who are receiving traditional weekly unemployment benefits, and these workers may find their unemployment benefits reduced to near zero next. These unemployed workers currently rely on the federal program to support, even if the state annual allotments (annual allotments) have been used up, can still receive weekly unemployment benefits. After the Republican governor withdraws from the federal government program, unemployed workers who have long relied on federal programs for benefits during the past period will no longer be able to receive benefits.
The National Employment Law Project (NELP), a labor advocacy group, sent a letter to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on December 12, suggesting certain legal options to allow the federal government to continue to provide assistance to unemployed families. Provide assistance.
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