Indiana must continue pandemic unemployment benefits for now, judge rules
By Tami Luhby, CNN
Indiana must continue paying pandemic unemployment benefits to roughly 230,000 Hoosiers until a lawsuit challenging the early termination of the compensation is decided, a state judge ruled Friday.
Jobless workers filed a lawsuit earlier this month challenging Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order to cease the payments — including the $300 weekly federal boost — as of June 19. The suit may be the first one aimed at stopping states from ending the pandemic unemployment benefits early.
Indiana Legal Services and Macey Swanson Hicks & Sauer, a private employment law firm, are arguing that the move violates a state law that requires Indiana to “procure all available federal insurance benefits to citizens,” according to the firms.