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COLUMBUS, Ohio Two attorneys from Cleveland are taking Ohio to court in the hope of restoring federal dollars to the unemployment system.
Ohioans were receiving an extra $300 per week on top of their state benefits, but that stopped on June 26.
It wasn t because the federal government ended the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Those checks are scheduled to go out through Labor Day. Gov. Mike DeWine – along with several other Republican governors – said they didn t want the money anymore.
“When this program was put in place, it was a lifeline for many Americans at a time when the only weapon we had in fighting the virus was to slow its spread through social distancing, masking and sanitization,” DeWine said back in May. “That is no longer the case.
Ohio lawsuit filed to restore federal pandemic unemployment benefits
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Ohio lawsuit seeks federal COVID unemployment benefit restoration
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