Louisiana will stop paying the $300-a-week federal boost to pandemic unemployment benefits at the end of July — the first Democrat-led state to drop the assistance.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed a bill that terminates the federal enhancement early in exchange for increasing the maximum state unemployment benefit by $28 to $275 a week, starting in 2022.Are unemployment benefits causing working shortages? Here's what we know.
Why Edwards is ending the $300 payment earlyAsked last week about ending the enhanced payments early, Edwards said that he was already considering discontinuing the payments around August 1, He added that he was waiting for a report that weighed the benefits to Louisiana of continuing the $300 boost with the costs of employers not having enough workers.
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