#Unemployment numbers for August & #Stimulus Check Update
Channel: Lawyer Up with John Ting
Date: 2020-09-09

⚡️QUESTION - Have you collected your unemployment check for August?

#unemployment #unemployment benefits #economy #stimuluscheck
✅ Key tips throughout the show
UNEMPLOYMENT LOST WAGES ASSISTANCE $400 & $300 UPDATE  

To be eligible, according to the executive memorandum, you must collect $100 or more per week from your unemployment benefits before taxes to receive LWA. Unlike FPUC where everyone was eligible who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, LWA you must have lost your job due to the pandemic and receive $100 per week or more. 

It will be retroactively back dated to August 1st according to the memorandum which is when FPUC the $600 weekly boost expired but claimants from some states are saying they are receiving it from the 8th. In the executive memorandum, funds will last until the end of the year or until funds are depleted. FEMA informed us initially they only could provide three weeks of funding. However now FEMA will provide more payments of LWA to some states. At this point in time this isn’t for all states as FEMA originally guaranteed only three weeks of payments, but FEMA says some of the earlier states may receive this additional funding. 

Distribution time depends on your state. After your state applies and is approved FEMA can provide funding however then the state must distribute the funds and some states are saying this might take a while for their systems to implement. 

Washington DC applied recently making Nebraska the only state we have heard nothing from. South Dakota is the only state that has officially declined. 

Nevada is last state pending approval.

Now for the new states approved by FEMA. https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/lost-wages-assistance-approved-states

Anticipated Distribution dates for the 41 states in order from first to last: 
August 15, 2020: Arizona (already paying), Iowa (soon if not already), Louisiana (already paying), and New Mexico (mid-September) 
August 16, 2020: Colorado (mid-September), Missouri (already paying) and Utah (only 3 weeks; mid-September) 
August 18, 2020: Oklahoma (mid-late September), Montana (already paying) 
August 19, 2020: Maryland (9/27), Idaho (next couple of days) 
August 21, 2020: Massachusetts (sept 15th or already paying), Alabama (next week), California (September 7; 2 phases), Indiana (mid-September), North Carolina (next week; email info coming), Texas (already paying), Kentucky (early-September), Michigan (requests not to contact them; TBD)
August 22, 2020: Vermont (few weeks), Mississippi (mid-September), Tennessee (already paying), Rhode Island (mid-September) 
August 23, 2020: New York (9/6), Alaska (mid-late October), Georgia (3 to 4 weeks) 
August 24, 2020: Connecticut (will need to recertify; mid-September), Pennsylvania (9/6), Washington (TBD), New Hampshire (early-September) 
August 25, 2020: Maine (no info), Arkansas (weeks away) 
August 26, 2020: Ohio (mid-late September), Virginia (no info yet) August 27, 2020: West Virginia (TBD) 
August 28, 2020: Wyoming ), Oregon (still awaiting info) 
August 29, 2020: Minnesota (8/30 or 9/6), Florida (they are preparing now, no info), Hawaii (moving as quickly as possible but still no info) 
August 31, 2020: North Dakota (mid-September) 
September 1, 2020: Illinois (no info), Wisconsin (8 weeks away), South Carolina (no info) 
September 2, 2020: Delaware
September 4, 2020: New Jersey
September 7, 2020: Kansas 
September 8, 2020: Washington DC

FEMA grants for lost wages supplemental payments will continue until any of these conditions are met:
1. FEMA has expended $44 billion from the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF).
2. The DRF balance reaches $25 billion.
3. Enactment of legislation providing supplemental Federal unemployment compensation, or similar compensation, for unemployed or partially employed individuals due to COVID-19.
4. The program end date of no later than December 27, 2020.

https://www.fema.gov/disasters/coronavirus/governments/supplemental-payments-lost-wages-guidelines 

UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS FOR AUGUST 2020

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm

2010-2020 Unemployment numbers
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU04023554&series_id=LNU04000000&series_id=LNU03023554&series_id=LNU03000000&years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data

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