Sep 27 | Bill To Fix UI Announced
Today Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, Senator Michael F. Bennet, and Senator Sherrod Brown introduced a bill to make...
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Official Statement
Sep 15, 20212 min read
Sept 15 | New Bill To Extend Pandemic UI Introduced
Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced she is introducing a bill to extend pandemic UI programs through...
Official Statement
Aug 21, 20213 min read
Aug 21 | August Updates
26 states have threatened or ended federal pandemic UI benefits early. Some states have started lawsuits to fight back against these...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Jul 19, 20215 min read
Jul 19 | Summer Updates
First, some good news! Tax refunds are coming for those that filed their 2020 taxes before the $10,200 UI tax forgiveness was passed. A...
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Jun 17, 20212 min read
Jun 17 | Recent Updates
A roundup of recent news regarding unemployment pandemic programs: At this point TWENTY-FIVE states led by Republican governors are...
ExtendPUA.org Team
May 13, 20217 min read
May 13 | Action Items for Saving Federal UI
As many of you know Republican governors have declared war on UI. 16 governors so far have announced they are opting out of federal...
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May 11, 20213 min read
May 11 | Some States Ending Federal UI Early
Due to appalling and false rhetoric circulating claiming boosted unemployment insurance is discouraging people from taking jobs, some...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Apr 28 | Fixing UI is in the american Families Plan Outline
A mention of permanent reform to the unemployment system made it into the White House's American Families Plan! Unlike the American...
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Apr 26, 20212 min read
Apr 23 | Efforts for UI Reform & Relief
Members of Congress are calling on President Biden to include UI system reform in the American Families Plan. This is a crucial component...
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Apr 18, 20215 min read
Apr 14 | Legislation to Reform UI
Senators Wyden and Bennet have released a proposal to permanently reform the Unemployment Insurance System. This is much needed work and...
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Apr 10, 20212 min read
Apr 8 | NYS Wins
We are VERY proud to announce MAJOR wins for workers in the NYS budget finally passed this week. We a re grateful to the NYS legislators...
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Mar 8, 20211 min read
Mar 7 | Senate Passes ARP With Changes
A graphic series on this weekend's developments: Here's the FULL BREAKDOWN of the Senate's modifications to the House version of the...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
Mar 5 | UI Amendments
Two amendments to the unemployment provisions are currently being discussed on the Senate floor. Senate Democrats (via Senator Carper)...
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Mar 4, 20212 min read
Mar 4 | Senate progress on ARP
The Senate voted to start proceedings on the American Rescue Plan (the upcoming COVID relief plan moving through the reconciliation...
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Feb 28, 20214 min read
Feb 27 | House Passes Plan
The House of Representatives finally passed the American Rescue Plan as part of reconciliation. The next three days are crucial in the...
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Feb 26, 20212 min read
Feb 26 | DOL expands PUA eligibility
The US Department of Labor has issued guidance expanding PUA eligibility! From our inbox: The new guidance expands eligibility to three...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Feb 10 | Committee Progress
The Ways and Means Committee approved the unemployment provisions for upcoming COVID relief including $400 weekly FPUC and extension of...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Jan 8 | Committee Proposal
The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has released their proposal for relevant COVID19 relief measures to go through...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Feb 5 | Jan Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the January jobs report on Friday. It’s a bleak view of the economy, but provides important data...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Feb 5, 20213 min read
Feb 5 | Reconciliation
Further COVID relief has two ways of being passed in the coming weeks and it looks like the second, reconciliation, is most likely. Two...
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Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 31 | GOP Proposal
Today 10 Republicans sent a letter (full text here) to the Biden administration, proposing a much smaller COVID relief package, coming in...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Jan 24, 20211 min read
Jan 24 | NYS Partial UI
On January 18th we had a huge WIN for unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers! According to Governor Cuomo, Partial UI in NYS will now...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Jan 14, 20212 min read
Jan 14 | Biden's Relief Plan
First, we state that this is a plan NOT a bill. This proposal can be used by Congress to write legislation, there is still room for...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Jan 10, 20214 min read
Jan 8 | Dec Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the December jobs report on Friday. With only about half of the pandemic job losses...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 28, 20202 min read
Dec 27 | Bill Signed By Trump
Just after 8pm on Sunday December 27th Trump finally signed the omnibus bill that contains the relief bill passed by Congress a week ago....
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Dec 23, 20202 min read
Dec 23 | Presidential Approval
Trump has threatened to veto the relief bill. He has not officially vetoed and he is "still deciding" if he will. Current state of play...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 21, 20203 min read
Dec 21 | Bill Text Details
The bill text has finally been released. Full text is here. It's over 5,000 pages because it is wrapped into the omnibus bill. ADDITIONAL...
Official Statement
Dec 21, 20206 min read
Dec 21 | Relief Deal Summary and Statement
ExtendPUA.org Statement on December Relief Deal Congressional leadership has finally reached a deal on the relief bill. It is 6 months...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Dec 14 | Bipartisan Text
The bipartisan relief package text has finally been released. It has nothing new or surprising from what we have learned over the last...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 9, 20202 min read
Dec 9 | Bipartisan Details
First, we will briefly acknowledge movements made by the White House and McConnell so that your questions are answered. Then we encourage...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 4, 20201 min read
Dec 4 | Nov Jobs Report
Another Jobs Report, this time broken down in graphic format. Sources for this information include the BLS November Jobs Report Economic...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 2, 20202 min read
Dec 2 | BiPartisan Progress
Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer released a join statement today saying they are willing to compromise to get emergency relief out to...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 2, 20201 min read
Dec 1 Summary
A lot of proposals were released today. The most important thing to note is that legislators are feeling the pressure. These proposals...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 1, 20201 min read
Dec 1 | Holiday Relief Act
Separate from the bipartisan proposal that just hit the press this morning and is detailed in the previous post here, 5 Senators have...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Dec 1, 20203 min read
Dec 1 | Bipartisan Proposal
There has already been progress on the bipartisan conversations we mentioned last night. The bipartisan group of Senators we mentioned...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Nov 30, 20202 min read
Nov 30 | Bipartisan talks
While we have seen little movement over the holidays from leadership besides political posturing on both sides, we are hearing growing...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Nov 16 | Update
So where are we now? The Senate returned to DC last week. The House returned this week. Negotiations between the White House and Pelosi...
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Nov 6, 20205 min read
Nov 6 | Oct Jobs Report
Another jobs day, another month without relief, another day of spin from people an d politicians who aren't experiencing the real life...
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Nov 5, 20202 min read
Nov 5 | Post Election Hope
The highly contentious election polarized elected officials on a relief bill. Now that campaigning has ended, it seems that everyone...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 28, 20202 min read
Oct 28 | Negotiations Standstill
This is a discouraging update so we will first say that we have not and will not stop fighting for relief. As part of the SCOTUS debates...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
Oct 20 | WH Deal Progresses
Speaker Pelosi's 24 hour deadline is upon us. It seems that setting a deadline effectively put pressure on the negotiations. According to...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 18, 20202 min read
Oct 18 | Coming This Week
Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Mnuchin spoke Saturday evening at 730pm for an hour according to Drew Hammill, Pelosi's Deputy Chief of...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Oct 13 | Senate Race Debates
Many of the Senators who are standing in the way of relief are up for re-election. Senator McConnell, who has been the biggest road block...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 12, 20203 min read
Oct 12 | 1.8T Offer From the WH
On Friday the White House offered a 1.8 trillion dollar deal in negotiations. It includes: $1,200 direct payments to adults plus $1,000...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Oct 8 | WH PI-VOT! Negotiations Resume
We're getting a little dizzy from all the head spinning caused by changing minds in the Senate and White House regarding the status of...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Oct 7 | Negotiations "halted"
It is not over. As many know, Trump tweeted yesterday that he was ending negotiations, blaming Nancy Pelosi. Here is a direct quote from...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 3, 20203 min read
Oct 2 | SepT Jobs Report
The September Jobs Report has been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it just further proves the need for relief. This is...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Oct 1, 20202 min read
Oct 1 | 1.6T White House Proposal
HEROES passed the House in May and was never put to a vote in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. More information on that...
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Sep 28, 20201 min read
Sep 28 | HEROES V.2
House Democrats have released a trimmed down version of The HEROES Act coming in at $2.2 Trillion instead of the $3.4 Trillion it was...
ExtendPUA.org Team
Sep 28, 20202 min read
Sep 28 | Coming soon: New House Bill
Update: In a meeting with Speaker Pelosi's office today we were told a new bill from the House will be released tonight. We had meetings...
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ExtendPUA.org Team
Sep 27, 20212 min read
Sep 27 | Bill To Fix UI Announced
Today Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, Senator Michael F. Bennet, and Senator Sherrod Brown introduced a bill to make...
Official Statement
Sep 15, 20212 min read
Sept 15 | New Bill To Extend Pandemic UI Introduced
Yesterday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced she is introducing a bill to extend pandemic UI programs through...
Official Statement
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Sept 6 | Programs Expiration
"Today all pandemic UI programs (PUA, PEUC, and FPUC) expired due to extreme negligence by President Biden and Congress. They have...
Official Statement
Aug 21, 20213 min read
Aug 21 | August Updates
26 states have threatened or ended federal pandemic UI benefits early. Some states have started lawsuits to fight back against these...
Official Statement
Mar 12, 20215 min read
Mar 12 | xPUA Statement on the Passage of ARP
At ExtendPUA.org, we are not only advocates and researchers on the front line of the fight for pandemic relief; we are also all...
Official Statement
Jan 15, 20215 min read
Jan 15 | XPUA Response to Biden's Plan
ExtendPUA.org's Co-Founders Statement on President-Elect Biden's Rescue Plan. In President-Elect Biden’s plan, we are thrilled to finally...
Official Statement
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Dec 31 | 2020 In Review
Relief passed and states are already starting to implement some of the programs. (Bill details and updates here) This is largely thanks...
Official Statement
Dec 21, 20206 min read
Dec 21 | Relief Deal Summary and Statement
ExtendPUA.org Statement on December Relief Deal Congressional leadership has finally reached a deal on the relief bill. It is 6 months...
Official Statement
Dec 15, 20203 min read
Dec 15 | Live Events Hearing
An XPUA Statement From Co-Founder, Stephanie Freed: Today the Senate committee on commerce held a hearing on COVID19's Impact on the Live...
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