Arkansas must rejoin federal covid relief unemployment programs, judge rules
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Arkansas must rejoin federal covid relief unemployment programs, judge rules
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Court challenge filed against governor s decision to cut jobless aid
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John Lynch
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July 23, 2021 at 8:18 p.m.
Great Seal of Arkansas in a court room in Washington County. Thursday, June 21, 2018,
Gov. Asa Hutchinson overstepped his authority when he ended federally funded pandemic unemployment supplements that can pay out-of-work job seekers an extra $300 a week, according to a lawsuit filed Friday that calls on Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright to order the payments to resume.
The Republican governor’s decision to withdraw Arkansas last month from federal unemployment payments established as a response to covid-related joblessness cut off 68,853 Arkansas residents from “life-sustaining benefits for which they otherwise qualified,” according to the 19-page lawsuit brought by Legal Aid attorneys Kevin De Liban, Jaden Atkins, Nikki Clark, Christina Cole and Victoria Frazier on behalf of five unemployed Arkansas residents.
Suit calls for return of $300 jobless aid
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