Some unemployed Marylanders WUSA9 spoke with say they have barely kept their heads above water the past year and a half amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Next month, they'll lose the federal enhanced pandemic unemployment benefits and they're worried. Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that Maryland would stop paying out the benefits starting July 3, citing positive health and economic recovery. That ends the extra $300 people on unemployment have.
Salinas Californian
Half of Stacy Estes’ pay disappears every month before it hits his bank account. Each check is about $500 lighter than it should be, intercepted in the name of child support which he wouldn’t have a problem with, if it were going to his kids.
Instead, only $225 goes to his children. The rest is garnished to repay government debt he began accruing more than two decades ago when he first got behind on child support payments.
The 53-year-old man owes about $47,000 in child support debt, most of which is compounded by years of government-imposed interest, according to financial records reviewed by The Salinas Californian and CalMatters.
Published: Thursday, May 6, 2021
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin yesterday called a pipeline company s treatment of Oklahoma farmers a dystopian nightmare and proposed reining in the legal authority for such companies to condemn land for their projects.
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