{"id":70162,"date":"2020-09-18T13:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nys-distributing-300-weekly-jobless-benefits-to-residents\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:29:15","slug":"nys-distributing-300-weekly-jobless-benefits-to-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nys-distributing-300-weekly-jobless-benefits-to-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYS distributing $300 weekly jobless benefits to residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NYS distributing $300 weekly jobless benefits to residents<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or TV series visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/nys-labor.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        The Cuomo administration finally distributed unemployment insurance benefits this week to 2.26 million New Yorkers \u2014 $1.9 billion in total \u2014 just weeks after the White House accused the state of dragging its feet on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The state Labor Department said the jobless New Yorkers received retroactive federal Lost Wage Assistance benefits of $300 each for the weeks of August 2, 9th and 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is overseeing the program, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved New York for a second and final round of benefits \u2014 for a maximum of six weeks in payments..<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department will process $300 LWA payments retroactively to about 2.3 million New Yorkers for the weeks of Aug. 23, 30th and Sept. 6, beginning next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last six months, we have moved heaven and earth to connect millions of New Yorkers with their benefits, including nearly $1.9 billion in Lost Wages Assistance payments distributed just this week,\u201d said state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon.<\/p>\n<p>Reardon blamed any snafus on the federal government, and noted benefits are limited to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile plagued with administrative roadblocks, the federal lost wages assistance program is now finally providing unemployed families with much-needed support \u2014 and it is unconscionable for the Federal government to once again cut Americans off from this support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaders in Washington D.C. must pass a comprehensive package that supports unemployed families and the state and local governments that are hurting from this pandemic. Anything less is simply unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump authorized the federal unemployment insurance by executive order on Aug. 8 after the $600-a-week payments provided by the CARES Act expired on July 31 and Congress deadlocked on an extension plan.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo initially opposed Trump\u2019s alternative program as \u201claughable\u201d and \u201cimpossible\u201d when it was first announced because it required that states kick in an additional $100 a week for each unemployed worker \u2014 something he said cash-strapped New York couldn\u2019t afford. The White House subsequently waived that requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The White House had accused Team Cuomo of dithering in applying for the president\u2019s offer of the $300 bonus to the unemployed through the $44 billion Lost Wages Program, and only did so after The Post inquired about it.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Department officials announced last week that New York\u00a0 qualified for the program and would begin releasing funds.<\/p>\n<p>In total, New York State has paid $44.5 billion in benefits to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 representing more than 21 typical years\u2019 worth of benefits paid in just six months.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Labor Department reported new jobless figures that show an improvement in the unemployment rate, which is still high .<\/p>\n<p>The state unemployment rate dipped from 16 percent in July to 12.5 percent in August.<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s unemployment rate dropped from 20 percent to 16 percent But there were still 626,000 fewer jobs in the city compared to August, 2019, when the unemployment rate was 3.9 percent.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/18\/nys-distributing-300-weekly-jobless-benefits-to-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#NYS distributing $300 weekly jobless benefits to residents&#8221; If you want to watch Movies or TV series visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com The Cuomo administration finally distributed unemployment insurance benefits this week to 2.26 million New Yorkers \u2014 $1.9 billion in total \u2014 just weeks after the White House accused the state of dragging its feet on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/nys-labor.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[71082,70344],"class_list":["post-70162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-18-20","tag-coronavirus-in-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}