UIA Update: Michigan begins paying $300 supplemental benefit payments
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The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency has started issuing $300 weekly Pandemic Unemployment Compensation payments to an estimated 365,000 claimants on regular state unemployment insurance (UI) and Extended Benefit programs, (Courtesy Photo/Pixabay)
LANSING The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) has started issuing $300 weekly Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (PUC) payments to an estimated 365,000 claimants on regular state unemployment insurance (UI) and Extended Benefit programs this weekend.
The PUC supplement, which is payable from Dec. 27, 2020 through March 13, 2021, provides an additional $300 per week to all eligible unemployment recipients who receive at least $1 for the week. Claimants do not need to take any action to receive this additional weekly benefit, it will be paid automatically after they certify. The additional payment comes from an
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Auckland region s drought were the two main factors taken into account in the recommendations.
The pandemic has punched a $1b hole in the council s revenue, while Watercare splashed out $209m in additional water sources and treatment.
In addition to higher rates, the recommendations also included increases in infrastructure growth charges - the fee for connecting a new dwelling or property to the water network - of 12 percent from 1 July this year followed by an 8 percent rise annually from then.
The plan, approved by the board at a meeting on 23 December last year, would be included in the Auckland Council s draft 2022-2031 Long Term Plan (LTP).
Auckland mayor Phil Goff says Watercare decision to double water bills in a decade too drastic from some families
7 Jan, 2021 11:33 PM
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Home and hosed: Auckland water rules relaxed just in time for summer. Video / Will Trafford
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
Auckland mayor Phil Goff says Watercare should have gradually increased water prices rather than the drastic changes that could see the average household paying $1200 a year more in less than a decade.
The Watercare board has approved price increases over the next 10 years that will see the average household annual water fee more than double from $1069 to $2261.
Ukraine conducting examination of tablet found at UIA crash site near Tehran – Venediktova 3 min read
In December 2020, Iran handed over to Ukraine a tablet found at the crash site of the Boeing 737-800 of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said. Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General s Office of Ukraine (PGO), the investigation into the plane crash near Tehran continues. Over the year, more than two hundred procedural and investigative actions have been carried out, 18 requests for international legal assistance have been sent to other countries, we are constantly cooperating with the competent authorities of Iran and Canada, Venediktova wrote on her Facebook page.
Over the year, the Prosecutor General's Office, within the framework of criminal proceedings on the fact of the plane crash of the UIA plane in Iran, with 176 people died, has conducted more than two hundred procedural and investigative actions, sent 18 requests for international legal assistance to other countries, and cooperates with the competent authorities of Iran and Canada.