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Out-of-work Hoosiers will get a raise in a few weeks

Out-of-work Hoosiers will get a raise in a few weeks.

Indiana has signed up for the 300-dollar-a-week add-on to unemployment benefits authorized by President Trump after Congress let a larger add-on expire. That’ll double the weekly check of Indiana’s average recipient.

But the state has decided against pushing the extra benefit to 400 dollars, even though Trump’s executive order would have allowed states to cover the extra hundred with federal CARES Act assistance. Department of Workforce Development commissioner Fred Payne says fewer than 10 states have signed up for the program so far, and none of them is paying the state-funded extra hundred, though some are still considering it.

Payne says the added payments won’t start for two-to-four weeks. The money is coming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, not the Department of Labor, and the state needs to reconfigure its computer systems to handle it.

Payne says the payments will continue until Congress supersedes it with a bill of its own, FEMA hits 25-billion dollars in disaster relief, or the 44-billion set aside for the add-on runs out. He warns that last one might not take long, as more states finish sorting through the program’s rules and submit their applications.

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