The final round of 300 dollar federally boosted unemployment checks goes out this week, with no apparent efforts to replace the money on the horizon.
Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie said they’ve been informed by the feds the checks will cease after the payment week ending September 5th.
“44 billion was allocated for this fund for all state and once that money ran out there was no additional money,” said Dejoie.
The round of payments that were administered mid-August and were retroactive to August 1st were funded by FEMA emergency response funds.
Dejoie said these five weeks of benefits were a stopgap measure done by executive order while Congress was supposed to deliberate the next pandemic relief package.
“That is why it is so important for Congress to act in a permanent or more sustainable fashion,” said Dejoie.
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