Comment on Colorado labor department plans to start processing some federal unemployment benefits again next week

Colorado labor department plans to start processing some federal unemployment benefits again next week

State labor officials will soon be emailing thousands of Coloradans who had their federal unemployment benefits shut off on Dec. 26 as the state prepares to relaunch those programs with the first payments possibly going out next week. The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, designed for gig workers and the self-employed, and the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that provided extended benefits to people who have exhausted other forms of support both ran out of funding late last month, leaving an estimated 153,000 people in Colorado without income they had been counting on during the pandemic. The programs were reauthorized by the second stimulus bill signed by President Donald Trump on Dec.

 

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