Massachusetts
Implements Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC)
Finalizes
Implementation of all CARES Act Benefits For Unemployment Claimants in
Massachusetts
BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration announced today that
Massachusetts residents who are eligible for the federal CARES Act and qualify
for having exhausted their regular unemployment compensation may now receive
the new Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC). The launch of this
program marks the third and final benefit available for the Commonwealth
through the CARES Act.
PEUC provides up to 13 additional
weeks of benefits to an individual who has exhausted all rights to any regular
unemployment compensation and who meets other eligibility requirements of the
CARES Act. PEUC will automatically begin for individuals who have been
receiving regular standard unemployment benefits on an active claim and those benefits
are exhausted, and those individuals do not have to take any further action.
If an individual’s standard
unemployment claim has expired, they must file a new standard claim. If the
individual is monetarily eligible on the new standard claim, regardless of the
benefit rate amount, they will receive benefits from that new claim. Otherwise,
the individual will be eligible for PEUC on the prior claim and it will be
automatically implemented.
Individuals who exhausted their
standard benefits but were receiving benefits through Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance (PUA) must apply to claim weekly benefits. Residents should apply
through the standard unemployment benefits portal
available here.
Those receiving PEUC will also
receive $600 weekly through the week ending July 25, 2020, provided by the
Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program established by the
CARES Act.
The CARES Act signed into law on
March 27, 2020, established the PEUC, PUA and FPUC public benefit programs that
expanded unemployment eligibility, temporarily increases weekly benefits for
all claimants and allows additional categories of people to claim unemployment
benefits. This is the largest expansion of assistance for the Commonwealth’s
workforce since the Great Depression.
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