And PEUC claimants were about 34% more likely to be over 64 than people receiving regular unemployment benefits. There were also more women than men receiving PEUC when it ended.

The PEUC program is the third new unemployment benefits program to be implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 10, VEC launched the $600 supplemental payment through the Federal ...

Its rationale was that EB, which was triggered by Hawaii's high unemployment rate and provides 13 weeks of benefits, likely still would be operating after claimants exhausted their PEUC.

The PEUC benefits are for people who have already used up their eligibility for state benefits. After a lengthy delay, the federal government recently finalized its rules for the PUA program.

The other group is PEUC recipients. The EDD estimates about two-thirds of the people losing PEUC may qualify for FED-ED, which would offer 13 weeks of extended benefits.

Unemployment benefits are restarting for people cut off when federal extensions ran out late last year, and a $300 boost laid out in a stimulus bill that passed Congress last month is rolling out ...

The temporary expiration of federal extended unemployment benefits contributed to a record daily high in claims for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, the foundation said an estimated 4.6 million workers will see their PEUC benefits expire on Dec. 26.

More than 30,000 Virginians filed initial unemployment benefits claims last week, pushing the total who have filed claims since mid-March ever closer to 1 million.

Hina Latif, a 32-year-old who was laid off last year from aerospace and defense company General Dynamics, exhausted her unemployment benefits and has also been waiting for information about PEUC.

The regular 12 weeks of benefits for those unemployed only lasted until about mid-June. That's when many applied for PEUC, a 13-week extension that took extended benefits to about mid-September.