The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that 24,000
Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments totaling $10M were issued the week of
September 21 through September 25, providing benefits to eligible Montanans.
That
figure includes regular UI benefits, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment
Compensation (PEUC) benefits, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits,
and Extended Benefits. Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC)
payments shown below were issued for weeks claimed and not previously approved
between UI weeks ending April 4 through July 25, 2020. The UI week ending July
25, 2020, was the last full week the extra $600 was authorized under the
federal CARES Act.
The Lost
Wages Assistance supplement ended in Montana the UI benefit week ending
September 5, 2020. Montana received six weeks of funding from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency for the UI benefit weeks ending August 1 through
September 5. As of September 25, 2020, DLI completed all possible disbursements
to claimants using the funds provided under the program.
Below is a
data breakdown of outgoing UI payments for the week of September 21 through
September 25:
|
Date Payments
Distributed
|
Regular UI Benefits
|
Reg. UI & PEUC
FPUC Payments
|
PUA Benefits
|
PUA FPUC Payments
|
PUA LWA - Fed Share
|
PUA LWA - State Share
|
PEUC Benefits
|
Extended Benefits
|
LWA -Fed Share
|
LWA - State Share
|
Total Payments
|
Total # of Payments
|
|
21-Sep
|
$2,966,051
|
-
|
$147,594
|
$15,952
|
$82,800
|
$27,600
|
$700,253
|
$113,133
|
$115,200
|
$38,400
|
$4,457,291
|
13,769
|
|
22-Sep
|
$507,143
|
-
|
$1,416,901
|
$564,554
|
$162,900
|
$54,300
|
$92,299
|
$19,588
|
$82,500
|
$27,500
|
$2,939,851
|
6,917
|
|
23-Sep
|
$478,057
|
$30,600
|
$321,472
|
$126,184
|
$120,600
|
$40,200
|
$68,436
|
$13,633
|
$81,300
|
$27,100
|
$1,319,745
|
1,765
|
|
24-Sep
|
$328,625
|
$25,200
|
$236,999
|
$101,942
|
$81,000
|
$27,000
|
$39,515
|
$25,200
|
-
|
-
|
$869,013
|
1,052
|
|
25-Sep
|
$335,838
|
$6,600
|
$170,993
|
$58,600
|
-
|
-
|
$32,500
|
$7,753
|
-
|
-
|
$586,728
|
522
|
|
Total
|
$4,615,714
|
$62,400
|
$2,293,959
|
$867,232
|
$447,300
|
$149,100
|
$933,003
|
$179,307
|
$279,000
|
$93,000
|
$10,172,628
|
24,025
|
The above
figures do not represent the number of individuals who have received payment.
Individual claimants could have multiple payments in that total, or one payment
representing multiple weeks’ worth of benefits.
DLI
continues to encourage anyone who believes they may be eligible for UI to file
a claim online at MontanaWorks.gov, or at mtpua.mt.gov for those that fall
under the
PUA eligibility guidelines. Those with technical,
eligibility, or benefits questions are encouraged to view the COVID-19 resource
website at
dli.mt.gov/covid-19. A variety of information for both Montana workers
and employers are available, in addition to resources to help claimants
navigate the unemployment process.
A landing
page for easy access to relevant Labor Market Information, including UI claims
data, is available here:
dli.mt.gov/labor-market-information.