California’s economy is slowly picking up and has already regained nearly a million jobs in the last year. Nevertheless, nearly three million Californians continue to collect some form of unemployment insurance, that for about two million of them, the benefits for the pandemic will come to an end this next September 4.
The Employment Development Department (EDD) is warning people to be prepared. Millions of people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic are about to lose their benefits as well.
In the entity about three million people have some type of unemployment insurance but those who enjoy federal benefits of $ 300 per week will stop receiving them at the end of this week.
The program known as Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) will also expire. This allowed the benefits to be extended for up to 53 weeks.
Despite the fact that as of this September 1, most Californians who are entitled to obtain the second stimulus check will begin to receive the support, the EDD has asked people who are still unemployed to look for a job.
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Although the economy begins to recover after the pendemic, many businesses closed and several workers are still worried about contracting the disease while returning to work.
California workers presented 67,200 applications for unemployment benefits during the week ending August 21, what supposes an increase of 2,500 from the previous week, as reported by the United States Department of Labor.