Stimulus Bill Unemployment Pua

Pua is one of the programs established by the coronavirus aid relief and economic security cares act a 2 trillion coronavirus emergency stimulus package that president donald trump signed.

Stimulus bill unemployment pua. Under the new 900 billion relief bill pua is extended for new applicants until 14 march 2021. People in the program who haven t exhausted their total 50. Many already receiving audit notice and overpayment bills.

Full federal support for extended unemployment benefits. Another initiative of the cares act the pandemic unemployment assistance program also known as pua provided. The stimulus bill will extend both the pua and peuc programs for 11 weeks as well as top up regular state benefits with an extra 300 in weekly jobless aid or half of the extra 600 in aid.

People collecting pua are not eligible for meuc only people who are collecting regular unemployment and have also lost income from independent contractor work they did in addition to it. Pua recipients can also now receive a maximum of 50 total weeks of benefits up from 39. The stimulus bill also extends through march.

Under the coronavirus relief bill passed in march that established the pua a federal unemployment insurance program for self employed independent contractors and gig workers states were not. State agencies expected to ramp up audits of unemployment claims. Though the language of the stimulus bill doesn t.

The state unemployment office would calculate whether you d receive benefits for the 30 000 via pua or 20 000 via unemployment insurance but. New bill passed in december 2020 includes 1 billion for fraud prevention certification requirements and overpayment standards.