Early Monday morning, President Donald Trump signed a bill approving a $900 billion Covid-19 relief package, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry is getting ready for extensions for CARES act programs that are expected to help more than 509,000 people in Pennsylvania.
In a news release on Monday, acting L&I secretary Jennifer Berrier said that the state is getting ready for the CARES act extensions of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs. The programs, which expired last week, are meant to help assist workers who lost their jobs due to Covid-19 who are not eligible for other unemployment compensation programs, and providing additional weeks of benefits for workers who have exhausted their Unemployment Compensation Benefits. Berrier did say that it may be a while before payments can be made through the programs.
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She added that they are waiting for guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor when it comes to making payments through the programs.
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A list of assistance programs can be found by clicking on “COVID-19” at www.pa.gov.
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