“In practice, this means that an unemployed claimant will receive $300 per week in new FEMA-funded benefits, in addition to his or her existing weekly state-funded benefit amounts,” says guidance reviewed by CQ Roll Call that was sent out to state agencies by Assistant Secretary for Employment and Labor John Pallasch. “This option requires no new expenditures of state funds beyond what the state would already be paying out from state funds in regular unemployment compensation benefits.”
The early guidance says that to be eligible for the extra $300 from the federal government, jobless individuals must be receiving at least $100 a week from one of several other sources, including state unemployment assistance.
‘States can’t afford it’
States could still decide to meet the matching requirements if they choose, but that would require a nearly $15 billion contribution from state governments, which are reeling from the pandemic economic shutdown.
They are pleading with Congress for some $500 billion in federal assistance, which is hung up in a fight between the parties. Trump’s memorandum says states can also use any leftover funds from the first round of $150 billion in direct aid to states and localities distributed in March; the Treasury Department has reported that state and municipal governments have been slow to use those resources.
New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, has already come out swinging, calling Trump’s plan a "nonstarter."
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