The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program is one of three federally funded programs introduced by the CARES Act. This program has a very specific aim: providing emergency unemployment ...

An audit released on June 16 of the Illinois Department of Employment Security found that half of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits the agency paid out during the height of the ...

Upon taking office, President Joe Biden, through an executive order, instructed the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to review prior guidance on the availability of an individual to receive unemployment ...

The nation's 59 million self-employed workers got a lifeline last year when lawmakers created the first-ever program that extended jobless benefits to this growing group of workers. But that program, ...

One of the first programs Congress created to assist Americans thrown out of work by the pandemic was the unprecedented Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA expanded unemployment ...

Since the pandemic, many workers have faced a difficult choice: taking a job that may increase their risk of exposure to the coronavirus or turning down income they may need to cover the bills. Those ...

PITTSBURGH — 11 Investigates told you about the gap in pandemic unemployment benefits several weeks ago. Payments stopped in late December even though Congress passed an extension. The state couldn’t ...

Initial claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, fell sharply last week. Half the number of self-employed and gig workers applied for unemployment benefits, according to the Labor ...

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