{"id":63646,"date":"2020-09-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-says-additional-unemployment-payments-are-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T06:30:00","slug":"state-says-additional-unemployment-payments-are-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-says-additional-unemployment-payments-are-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"State says additional unemployment payments are coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal funding that will provide $300 more in unemployment payments to Alaskans will be distributed soon, the state announced.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Tamika L. Ledbetter said Friday in a news release that $62 million in funding, provided by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/memorandum-authorizing-needs-assistance-program-major-disaster-declarations-related-coronavirus-disease-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order from President Donald Trump <\/a>will be allocated to Alaska from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Lost Wages Assistance program.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to thank President Trump for his executive order directing FEMA to assist displaced workers, including self-employed workers, through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program,&rdquo; Dunleavy said in a news release. &ldquo;Financial assistance to Alaskans now, who are ready and waiting to go back to work when their jobs return, will help protect Alaskan families and the overall economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/whats-good-cause-when-it-comes-to-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What&rsquo;s good cause when it comes to the pandemic?<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>People will receive the additional $300 payment for each week filed if they were eligible to receive at least $100 or more of weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/labor.alaska.gov\/unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state unemployment insurance<\/a> benefits and are unemployed or partially unemployed due to COVID-19, according to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Lost Wages Assistance payment funded by FEMA in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be distributed to eligible individuals once programming is completed, according to the state. Payments will be made to regularly covered unemployment insurance recipients and the self-employed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The unemployment insurance program has provided critical replacement wages for Alaskans impacted by COVID-19. We are grateful to our federal partners for the additional resources provided to Alaskans during these challenging times,&rdquo; Ledbetter said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact the Juneau Empire newsroom at (907)308-4895. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People will receive the extra $300 payment for each week filed if eligible to receive $100 or more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":63647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[703,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63646"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}