The state House approved Thursday a Republican-led effort that would compel North Carolina s withdraw from a federal extended unemployment benefit program with a $300 weekly payment.
Biden indicated that he supports allowing enhanced unemployment insurance to end in September. It makes sense it expires in 90 days, the president said in remarks from Delaware following the May jobs report.
It s not immediately clear whether Biden s comments also extend to programs aiding gig-workers and long-term unemployed people.
President Joe Biden indicated on Friday that he supports allowing enhanced unemployment insurance to expire in early September as more people get vaccinated and return to work. A temporary boost in unemployment benefits that we enacted helped people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and who still may be in the process of getting vaccinated, the president said in brief remarks from Delaware following the May jobs report. But it s going to expire in 90 days it makes sense it expires in 90 days.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said GOP states have every right to cut federal unemployment aid.
The moves in red states imperil jobless aid for 4 million workers in the coming weeks.
Biden also signaled he supported allowing the jobless aid to expire in September as scheduled.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday that Republican states have the right to cut federal unemployment benefits set to expire in three months. Those governors who have made the decision, as they have every right to do, to pull back on unemployment benefits or not accept them, I should say accurately that hasn t even taken effect in any state across the country, she said at her daily press conference.
At least 24 red states are starting to end their federal jobless benefits within weeks.
The moves will impact 4 million people on unemployment, with about half losing all government aid.
The Labor Department has concluded it has limited authority to step in to keep aid flowing.
Almost half of all US states have decided to end their participation in federal unemployment benefits, setting up some workers to receive drastically reduced payments and others without any federal relief coming through the door.
Twenty-four GOP-run states are moving to slash federal unemployment benefits within weeks, citing a so-called labor shortage and lack of hiring. Governors in those states are ending programs set up in the early in the pandemic, which added federal cash onto state unemployment checks and extended the weeks people were eligible for aid. Nebraska was the latest to pull the plug on all stimulus jobless aid programs, on Tuesday.