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Formerly Incarcerated People in West Virginia Find Community Support
After using similar services, Amber Bjornsson works as a peer employment support specialist, helping returning citizens find work in their community. “I use the knowledge and network I’ve acquired through my own experiences,” Bjornsson said.
Photo by Marcus Constantino / 100 Days in Appalachia
A network of government agencies and community service organizations have created a program to help formerly incarcerated people navigate life outside prison.
May 24, 2021
Amber Bjornsson says she had a “true heart change” while serving a two-year prison sentence for the years of fines and felonies she previously collected. Once her sentence was complete, Bjornsson moved into a recovery home.
Amanda Page
Amanda Page
is a Columbus-based writer from southern Ohio. Her work appears in Belt Magazine, The Daily Yonder, Literary Hub, and other outlets. She is the editor of The Columbus Anthology from Belt Publishing and The Ohio State University Press, and founder of Scioto Literary, a nonprofit that supports writers and storytellers in Scioto and surrounding counties in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
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Unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania: how to claim the weekly payment
Residents who have exhausted their state or federal jobless payments can use the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programme to extend the weekly payments.
SAUL LOEB
AFP
As the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic continue to strangle the American jobs market, more people are being forced to rely on
unemployment insurance to ensure that they can pay the bills. In Pennsylvania, the
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programme, or
PEUC for short, has proved to be a vital lifeline.
The weekly payments are funded by the emergency stimulus bill signed into law in late December as the additional unemployment benefits were on the brink of running out. The PEUC programme provides an additional 24 weeks of support for those who have exhausted their state benefits.