Eligible Minnesotans will continue to receive regular payments for unemployment, PUA assistance. | Pixabay
Eligible Minnesotans will continue to receive regular payments for unemployment, PUA assistance. | Pixabay
With record numbers of Minnesotans filing for unemployment benefits since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, coming updates will impact hundreds of thousands of individuals.
The Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Commissioner Steve Grove issued a memo with the pertinent information.
Expecting the state's Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund will go negative in July, DEED has formally requested to transition to federal funding so that benefits will continue to be delivered without delay. Many other states have or will have to follow suit.
Those receiving unemployment benefits or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) have also received an additional $600 per week, a provision given with the CARES Act. The last week this additional $600 will be paid is the week ending July 25. Those still eligible to receive unemployment benefits or PUA will continue to receive their normal payment.
Gov. Tim Walz and DEED are still working with legislators to temporarily extend unemployment benefits to high school students during the pandemic and economic disruption.
As the influx of unemployment benefit applications have come in, so have a number of those attempting to commit fraud by stealing identities and applying for benefits. In most cases, the attempts have been investigated and stopped before any benefits were paid out.
For questions or assistance, visit uimn.org. If the information needed is not there, please call at the times listed here.
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