Pua unemployment georgia extended. Who is eligible for peuc. However the first payable week ending date wed was july 4 2020 based on the first payable wed of peuc was april 4 2020 for 13 weeks. No peuc or pua is available after december 31 2020.
This extension adds 13 weeks of benefits to a regular claim for those that are ui eligible. Pandemic emergency unemployment compensation peuc is a program under the coronavirus aid relief and economic security cares act of 2020 that provides an extension to regular unemployment insurance benefits. Congressional democrats have continued to push for an extension of unemployment benefits.
92 of all valid claims have received benefits in the past 19 weeks where a payment has been requested but many of the others are not eligible for payment per state and federal law. Pua and the peuc programs will continue through the end of the year unless there is an extension of unemployment benefits. This includes individuals who are self employed gig workers 1099 independent contractors employees of churches employees of non profits or those with limited work history who do not qualify for state unemployment benefits.
The department of labor has recently issued additional guidelines and data on these programs as well. The pua program will provide unemployment benefits to those not ordinarily eligible for them. State extended benefits or seb is an extension of benefits that occurs when a state meets the unemployment rate threshold for a designated period.
Over 135000 claims have been filed by. Pandemic unemployment assistance pua is one of the federal cares act provisions that helps unemployed californians who are not usually eligible for regular unemployment insurance ui benefits. 13 weeks of pandemic emergency unemployment assistance peuc are available in all states before extended benefits become available.
Most states provide up to 26 weeks of funding though others such as georgia limit benefits to 12. Pandemic unemployment assistance pua provides emergency unemployment assistance to individuals who are not eligible for regular state unemployment insurance ui benefits or benefits under any other state or federal program or who have exhausted all entitlement to regular ui benefits or any other state or federal benefits. Georgia became eligible to pay seb may 10 2020.
Atlanta ga the georgia department of labor has recently been asked why not all initial unemployment insurance ui claims from the middle of march have not been paid. The latest public proposals are shown below and here is an analysis of the impact of losing the 600 to peoples weekly incomes.