In May, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated about $163 billion in PUA benefits were likely issued in error, a significant chunk of which stemmed from fraud. Criminals were able to exploit ...

Yohanna Gerges, 48, was working as a full-time Lyft and Uber driver in Albuquerque before the pandemic began. But in the spring of 2020, business dropped sharply and he developed a lung infection ...

states in the US are able to provide Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) to people who are self-employed, looking for part-time work or who don't qualify for regular unemployment benefits.

This has been done through the issuing of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits, with the CARES Act expanding the benefits given to those who were made unemployed after the pandemic hit.

Those deemed invalid were told to apply for benefits under the special federal program known as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, which helped close some of the racial gap. But many didn ...

“There are many reasons,” she said. Claimants affected by the end of the PUA benefits should visit the state Department of Human Services website at dhs.pa.gov for information on ...

But that program, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), will end on September 6, once again placing unemployment benefits out of reach for these workers. About 4.2 million people on the PUA ...

In late June, the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency told 648,100 claimants who received Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits — a federal pandemic program that expanded benefits ...

At the end of this month, the 29,000 Arkansans still receiving PUA benefits will no longer receive those benefits after the state opted out of the federal program. Preston said about 11,000 ...

(Jan. 27, 2021) John Hanna Associated Press CORRECTION: The 10,100 unemployed Kansans who moved from PUA to other programs are already being paid benefits from the labor department. A previous ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling on the Labor Department to continue providing PUA benefits to workers. In 14 GOP-led states, governors are ending their participation in federal unemployment benefits.

NORFOLK, Va. — Unemployed Virginians said they can't file weekly claims for PUA benefits right now, the latest problem in a series of errors within the Commonwealth's unemployment system.