Extra $300 in federal unemployment benefits could start going out next week, governor says
BATON ROUGE - Governor John Bel Edwards announced that Louisiana's unemployed may start seeing extra federal benefits as early as next week.
Edwards announced during a news briefing Tuesday that the state was approved to receive about $375 million in federal coronavirus relief funds, potentially by the end of this week. The state hopes to start issuing those additional payments out sometime next week.
.@LouisianaGov on recent federal unemoloyment executive order: state has been approved to participate. Grant should be around $375m but don’t have the funds yet. Hope to have it by end of week, and issuance starting next week (retroactive to 8/1)
— Johnston von Springer (@johnstonvon) August 18, 2020
Payments will also be issued retroactively from Aug. 1 for those who qualify for the funds. The money will be enough to pay about 417,000 unemployed workers. Another 87,000 are expected to miss out.
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The governor announced last week that the state would pursue the federal funds after President Trump signed an executive order making the money available to states.