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South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson is leading a push in the U.S. House to scale back unemployment benefits giving some able-bodied Americans a reason not to go back to work.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor s April jobs report showed fewer Americans than anticipated have returned to employment despite a record-high number of jobs available and state economies across the country reopening.
That is, in part, being blamed on a federal supplement to state unemployment programs that padded an extra $300 onto weekly assistance checks that qualifying workers have been receiving since the early stages of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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South Dakota ending federal unemployent supplement
PIERRE, SD – Governor Kristi Noem and the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation have announced South Dakota will terminate its participation in the federal government’s pandemic-related unemployment assistance programs.
In a release, state Labor and Regulation Secretary Marcia Hultman says ending the programs is a necessary step toward recovery, growth and getting people back to work.
South Dakota was the only state to not apply for the federal Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) supplement last fall. Additionally, South Dakota did not opt into the federal Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program in December 2020.
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May 12, 2021 | 12:41 PM
Add South Dakota to the growing list of states terminating participation in the federal government’s pandemic-related unemployment assistance programs.
State Labor and Regulation Secretary Marcia Hultman says the termination is effective the week ending June 26, 2021. She says businesses across the state continue to say they would grow and expand if they could find enough workers. She says “help wanted” signs are everywhere so ending these programs is a necessary step towards recovery, growth and getting people back to work.
Hultman says South Dakota was the only state to not apply for the federal Lost Wages Assistance supplement last fall and the state did not opt into the federal Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation program in December 2020.