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Georgia s Brian Kemp Ends COVID Unemployment in Effort to Get More People Back to Work
On 5/13/21 at 2:11 PM EDT
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said during a Thursday interview he will end the state s participation in federal coronavirus-related unemployment benefits. The move, he said, is to encourage people to get back to work.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp speaks during a press conference in Atlanta on August 10, 2020. Kemp said this week Georgia s participation in federal pandemic unemployment programs will end on June 26.
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty We ve got to get more people in the workforce, Kemp said during a segment on Fox News
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Montgomery: Gov. Kay Ivey will end the state’s participation in federal unemployment programs geared to the pandemic, including supplements to jobless benefits and a suspension of a work-search requirement. The state will withdraw from the program June 19, the governor’s office said in a statement Monday. Applications for the pandemic-related benefits will be processed until then. The decision means the state will withdraw from programs that provided an additional $300 weekly payment in unemployment insurance; extended benefits to self-employed, gig workers and part-time workers; extended benefits for those who’ve exhausted regular benefits; and provided an additional $100 benefit to people with mixed earnings. “Among other factors, increased unemployment assistance, which was meant to be a short-term relief program during emergency
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Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler (R) is considering ending federal unemployment benefits, which were expanded during the coronavirus pandemic, in an effort to force recipients back into the workforce, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
Kersha Cartwright, a spokesperson for Butler, said he met with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Monday to discuss the possibility of cutting the $300-a-week federal supplement or the special benefits given to people who are usually ineligible for state unemployment.
“I think the governor’s office and the commissioner are agreed that a major reduction in some programs, if not all programs, is needed,” Cartwright told the AP.