Hi everyone, this is Dr Nitin Chhoda with
Ignition Time and welcome to my channel!
In this video
i'll give you the latest status of the
$300 a week
unemployment booster the lost wages
assistance program.
At the time i'm recording this video 10
states have yet to be approved
for the funds from FEMA through the DRF
program but the majority of states have
indeed been approved. In fact
on your screen right now you'll see the
FEMA website and you see this is the
latest information
from the FEMA website. On the 29th of
August they approved Minnesota, Florida
and Hawaii and going down through
the entire list, this is a list of
all the states that have been approved.
A majority of states have indeed been
approved and you can see
as we scroll down the list that again a
majority of states
have indeed been approved at the time
that i'm recording this video.
Many state states like Arizona already
have already started sending the funds
and many other states have also started
sending the funds and in this video
i'll give you the latest status of which
states have yet to be approved
and which states have already started
sending funds. 10 states
plus Washington DC have not yet received
federal unemployment funds through the
lost wages assistance program and therefore they
are not able to start paying the $300
weekly benefit to their citizens.
South Dakota is not applying for it. Now we're
going to cover as much information as we
can in this video but keep in mind if your
state is not mentioned it's simply
because we don't have information for
your particular state yet.
Also if you do want to help type out in
the comments section below
and let us know which state you're in
and whether you started getting the
benefits
and then you'll be able to help all the
other members of our community. Now as
per the President's executive order
states are supposed to pay back, pay
going back all the way through to August 1st.
So your state should do that in
compliance with the President's
executive order
and the the architecture of the lost
wages assistance program.
Now some states have already started
processing and started paying out
benefits to their residents. These states
include Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana
Tennessee and Texas at this point in
time have
already started paying. Remember there
are two stages to this. Stage one
is that the state applies for a grant
from FEMA
through the DRF fund and then the state
gets the money. By the way FEMA has been
approving these grants very quickly.
Now once the state gets the money the
state now needs to comply with local guidelines
make sure their systems are updated.
Because keep in mind is a completely
separate program
and then they start distributing the
money. So there are two aspects to this
the state applying and then the state
distributing money. So
now keep in mind it's been over a month
at this point in time since
the $600 weekly benefit the federal
unemployment booster has expired and
that was mandated as per the Cares Act.
So a lot of a lot of individuals i would
say millions of individuals who are
unemployed all over the country are
hurting as we speak
because this money hasn't gone out yet.
Now there are some states that have not
yet received federal approval.
These states are Delaware, Illinois, Kansas
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington DC
and Wisconsin.
And like I mentioned earlier South
Dakota's governor said the state will
not apply
for the subsidy now six states like i
said have already started paying the
supplement
and here on your screen you see the
status of the extra unemployment
benefits the 300
a week lost wages assistance program all
the states that you see in green have
indeed been approved
so all the states that i mentioned
earlier on the fema website uh that that
you saw on the fema website are
displayed
in green on this map right here all the
states that are in yellow
have applied but have not yet been
approved these include wisconsin
delaware and south carolina applied but
not yet approved
at the time that we are recording this
video so they are waiting for fema to
approve
the the grant application and we can
expect fema to do that very shortly
because fema has been very quick
in approving these grant applications
states in blue
have yet to apply and this includes at
the time we are recording this video new
jersey
illinois so that's what uh you know
that's what's going on in those states
now keep in mind that
this money could run out not could run
out it will run out because there's only
44 billion dollars
and there are millions and millions of
individuals that need this unemployment
booster so this money is going to run
out so
it's likely that states that take extra
time to apply could be left behind
because the money
could run out now the states in gray
have not taken action yet
and this includes as you can see on the
screen dc uh
north dakota and nebraska so these
states have not yet taken action yet
and the state in red that you can see
south dakota is uh is essentially
not not accepting this subsidy now keep
in mind that
the president signed this executive
order over
two weeks ago it's been it's been a long
time since the prayers since the
since the president signed the executive
order and at this point in time
40 states that's 4040 states have
received approval
florida hawaii and minnesota like i
mentioned at the start of this video
were the latest states to get approval
and
many states have indeed started sending
out the money once again arizona
louisiana
missouri montana tennessee and texas
have indeed started sending out the
funds
now keep in mind montana is amongst
these six states that i mentioned
montana is a state that's actually
paying out four hundred dollars a week
in unemployment benefits the boost on
top of the state unemployment extension
and uh the other states in the list are
paying out 300 the other states meaning
arizona louisiana
missouri tennessee and texas so that's
something that's something
worth noting now states will be getting
three weeks of unemployment funds
meaning the 300
weekly booster and this will only you
know this will cover the weeks
this will cover the first three weeks
that they distribute and then they must
then apply
weekly for additional funding from the
federal government from the drf program
so again the states are only given three
weeks
of the 300 a week booster and then after
that they have to apply weekly to get
more funds from the federal government
and the program will be up to 44 billion
dollars
in total federal disaster relief funds
to unemployment unemployed workers
from fema through the drf program which
is a disaster relief fund
over to the states which then
distributed to their residence now keep
in mind
we're already starting to get it with
hurricanes i hope everyone in louisiana
is safe right now
and other states that were affected by
hurricane laura but if keep in mind that
this is essentially hurricane relief
money that was redoubted
and like i said some states did already
start paying
montana was the most recent state to
bring its program online just a few days
ago
and the state did receive funding
according to the department of labor and
industry
and arizona planned to complete all
retroactive payments as of last week so
if you're in arizona
chances are you already got your
retractive payment if all the paperwork
was in order so let us know
in the comments section below and texas
paid out 424 million dollars in funds
last week out of its total 1.38
billion dollars that it was allocated
through fema louisiana paid out 240
million dollars to almost 300 000
individuals
in the past few days tennessee started
paying missouri started paying as well
and missouri started
missouri started processing the money
excuse me and they said that workers
should soon start receiving
benefits let me repeat missouri began
processing the money and
they have started receiving benefits now
they will start receiving benefits in
missouri now there's a
there's a significant discrepancy based
on where you live based on the cost of
living so if you take a look at this
chart
on your screen right here you'll see the
jobless benefits after rent
food and transportation expenses all the
cities at the top
where the cost of living is lower um you
know the dollar goes uh
the dollar goes a long way but all the
cities closer towards the bottom a
majority of them
in california new york um you'll see
that
the dollar doesn't go very far because
of the cost of living because the cost
of living is very high there
and keep in mind it could be several
weeks before some states could start
making payments alaska
believes it will be six to eight weeks
to reprogram changes in the state's
technology uh systems in order to be
able to start distributing the funds so
that's where things stand right now now
keep in mind that
if congress does not allocate more money
um then this money is going to run out
and once this money runs out the
president
will have to essentially go to congress
and ask for money so that's where things
stand right now and this is the current
status of the 300
week unemployment boost so thank you so
much for watching i hope this was
helpful my name is dr nitin shoda with
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