Pua unemployment georgia update. Pandemic unemployment assistance or pua is the program that will. Update on federal stimulus bill. The georgia department of labor gdol is distributing federal unemployment funds as part of the cares act coronavirus aid relief and economic security bringing economic relief to many georgians.
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. Georgia state labor department updates system to distribute federal unemployment funds from staff reports apr 12 2020 apr 12. In this georgia unemployment update im going to share with you the new progress weve made on my dads application which he kindly gave me permission to share hoping it helps others.
Pandemic unemployment assistance or pua is the program that provides unemployment benefits to individuals. Unauthorized access use misuse or modification of this computer system or of the data contained herein or in transit tofrom this system constitutes a violation of title 18 united states code section 1030 and may subject the individual to criminal and civil penalties pursuant to. Thats a 29 percent decrease from aprils record setting numbers.
Department of labor requires individuals to certify for each week of pua benefits claimed that they are unemployed for at least one of the covid 19 reasons provided in section 2102 of. Government information which is restricted to authorized users only. The pua program will provide unemployment benefits to those not ordinarily eligible for them.
Pandemic unemployment assistance pua pua provides up to 39 weeks of benefits to qualifying individuals who are otherwise able to work and available for work within the meaning of applicable state law except that they are unemployed partially unemployed or unable or unavailable to work due to covid 19 related reasons as defined in the cares act. 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.