Hi everyone, this is Dr. Nitin Chhoda with
Ignition Time and welcome
to my channel. In this video i'll give
you the latest updates about the $300
a week unemployment booster the enhanced
unemployment extension
as a result of the lost wages assistance
program. I'll give you the latest updates
so that you can plan ahead. Plus i'll
give you an important announcement
from the state of Florida. Let's jump right in.
At this point only 6 states at the
time i'm recording this video
are paying out President Trump's $300 a
week unemployment benefits so far.
Most Americans, a majority of individuals
throughout the country
are going to have to wait several weeks
to receive this aid. In fact
residents in some states like Alaska
might have to wait as long as 2 months
to receive the aid as per state official.
So remember it's been
nearly 3 weeks after the President's
executive actions.
Almost 3 weeks have gone by and only 6
states are paying out the $300 federal
supplement at the time i'm recording
this video. Arizona was the first state that started
paying out the federal supplement and
at this point in time the 6 states
that are paying out the enhanced
unemployment benefit the $300
a week on top of the state unemployment
insurance benefits are Arizona,
Louisiana, Missouri, Montana
Tennessee and Texas. So these are the 6
states. One more time
Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri
Montana, Tennessee and Texas. And 32
states have been approved so far. In fact
let's show you the FEMA website which
gives you the list
of all the states that have been that
have been approved so far as of today.
And the states that have been approved
so far are
West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia
Maine, Arkansas, Connecticut
Pennsylvania, Washington, New Hampshire
New York, Alaska, Georgia,
Vermont, Mississippi, Tennessee
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Alabama
California, Indiana, North Carolina
Texas,Kentucky, Michigan,
Maryland, Idaho, Oklahoma
Montana, Colorado, Missouri and Utah
and Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana and New
Mexico. Those are the states that
have that have been approved by FEMA.
Remember the money goes from FEMA
through the DRF fund through the
disaster relief fund to the states and
then states have to then re-engineer
their systems
to administer this program because it's
a completely separate program
from the original $600 week booster. That
would have been much
much easier because that was money
appropriated by congress and it was a
lot of money relative to
the limited amount of money that's been
allocated for the lost wages assistance
program which is going to run out in a
few weeks but
that was a lot of money that went
straight through the unemployment
benefit system.
This is a smaller, this is less money
this is $44 billion
through FEMA which by the way is money
that was originally allocated for
hurricanes which are now hitting
uh you know louisiana and other states
as we speak in fact
some of the impact if you're looking at
the news has been horrific and
i want to make sure that if you're in
the path of the hurricane that you're
staying safe and listening to
local officials and operas are with you
but this money which was originally
intended for hurricanes
was essentially rerouted through the drf
fund through the president's executive
actions
and it's it's going to it's not going to
last very long number one number two not
everyone's eligible for it
because you have to be making more than
100 a week in state unemployment
benefits and number three
it's going to be much harder to
administer because the original federal
unemployment booster
essentially flowed through the existing
state unemployment systems
which is why everyone got it quickly and
it was a lifeline for many individuals
so at this point
six states are paying out the three
hundred dollars a week and according to
michelle evermore who's an unemployment
benefit specialist she said and i quote
i think states are really really making
sure they're implementing this within
the four corners of the law
and i don't blame them because states
have to essentially
make sure they comply with the
guidelines that have been set up within
the by the president's executive order
within the framework of what fema
establishes so
now fema has been approving states very
quickly and
each state has until the 10th of
september to decide whether to apply for
this initiative
which is financed by the 44 billion
dollars in disaster relief funds
from fema like i had mentioned earlier
for most states
additional funding could start going out
in mid-september or later so a majority
of individuals
watching this video will start receiving
aid in a few weeks by which time
the money in the program will indeed run
out so that's where things stand right
now and michelle evermore
who is a policy expert at the national
employment law project
uh she told business insider i would be
incredibly nervous to take money with so
little guidance
that came out so fast with so little
forethought and
she was concerned about how how it could
be implemented and she also said i quote
the worst thing that can happen is a
bunch of benefits go out
and then you find out you did it wrong
and then you have to redo it
and this is a concern that they have
this is a concern that a lot of states
have making sure that they don't have to
repay the funds
back to the federal government and in
turn claw those funds back from
residents in case they do it wrong which
we know which none of us want and so
here's the bottom line
most unemployed individuals across the
country
have no enhanced federal support at this
moment in time they are entirely
dependent on the state
unemployment insurance systems and the
number of jobless claims have
consistently topped
over one million a week in fact just uh
just a few days ago
the labor department said that 1.4
million individuals
filed for unemployment in the past week
alone and ernie tadeshi was a former
economist
and in the obama administration who
works for evacore isi said
week to week the vast majority of
unemployed individuals
are not receiving any emergency
unemployment insurance
he's talking about the federal enhanced
boost and he said this means we missed
out the entire month
between 60 and 70 billion dollars in
federal support that we got in july
and he said the the the impact on the
economy
uh remains to be seen so he said that
the estimated 300
supplement would provide an 85 wage
replacement
for the average person and that is where
things stand right now also
just so that we are clear residents in
four states
will receive the full 400 a week booster
so this is the information that we have
right now so four states
are going to be paying the full 400 week
booster
at the time i'm recording this 35 states
have been approved for the booster and i
gave you a list of all those states most
states are being added
as we speak keep in mind this
information is changing very rapidly
so if you do want to help please type
out a comment in the comments section
below
and let us know if you got the 300 a
week or the 400 a week in your state so
we can help everyone else
in our community so um the four states
that are going to pay the full 400
a week booster include west virginia
vermont kentucky and montana again west
virginia vermont
kentucky and montana and all four states
committed
to making the 25 contribution 100 a week
chip in if you will from the state so
that unemployed residents in those
states again
we're talking west virginia vermont
kentucky
and montana these states will get these
residents will get
the full 400 week booster so that really
is good news
uh for individuals in those states in
fact in virginia
officials were looking for ways to come
up with 100 a week booster
but it seems like they will be paying
the full 400
a week which is where things stand right
now and finally florida
which is a state that has been having a
significant
amount of problems as far as the
architecture of their state unemployment
benefit systems are concerned
there's been a lot of frustration with
the government specifically with
governor ron desantis
and the governor ron desantis did say
that florida will sign
on to president trump's enhanced
unemployment benefits program and this
is a decision
that will affect hundreds of thousands
of individuals
in florida so governor ron desantis did
actually announce
recently that florida would participate
in the enhanced unemployment benefits
program
uh he did he did actually announced that
in the past 48 hours and he said that
they would uh he said residents of
florida who receive at least 100
in unemployment benefits would be
eligible to get an extra 300
a week in federal benefits under
florida's participation in the program
as soon as we get more information about
the
the provisioning of the grant money to
florida and as soon as we have specific
information about when florida will
actually start providing
this money to its residents i will
definitely let you know thank you so
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