Boston, MA – Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Suzanne Bump today announced that additional extended unemployment benefits will soon be available to eligible claimants, and the first batch of extended benefits will be paid on December 15. This most recent extension was made possible by federal legislation passed by Congress and signed by President Obama on November 6 to expand the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Program, allowing up to 14 weeks of additional benefits for all states.
“We understand this round of extended benefits is critically important to those families that have been struggling to find work in this economy,” said Secretary Bump. “The Administration has concentrated all of its efforts to expedite these benefits and distribute them to eligible applicants as quickly as possible.”
The legislation extending the EUC program became effective November 8, making the week ending November 14 the first payable week. The complex nature of the procedures required to implement the EUC program has caused some delay before benefit payments can be made to qualified claimants. The December 15 check will include payments for up to 4 weeks of benefits including the weeks ending November 14, 21 and 28, as well as December 5. A second payment from the EUC program will be made for weeks ending December 12, 19, and 26 and be issued on January 5.
In order to be considered eligible for additional benefits, a claimant must still be unemployed and not eligible to establish a regular unemployment benefit claim. Additionally, the claimant must have exhausted any benefits previously available through EUC. The claimant’s weekly benefit amount will be the same as the amount received through previous federal extensions.
Claimants who have not yet exhausted their first 59 weeks of benefits will not be impacted and will continue to receive payments weekly.
The Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) will notify eligible claimants by mail this week. For more information and future updates about the extended benefit program will be posted on the DUA website, www.mass.gov/dua/extensions <http://www.mass.gov/dua/extensions> .
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