The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that over
20,000 Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments totaling approximately $8.5M were
issued the week of November 23 through November 27, 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. Extended Benefits triggered off as of UI benefit week ending
November 14, due to the decline in Montana’s insured unemployment rate.
Below is a
data breakdown of outgoing UI payments for the week of November 23 through
November 27:
|
Date
Payments Distributed
|
Regular
UI Benefits
|
Reg
UI & PEUC FPUC Payments
|
PUA
Benefits
|
PUA-FPUC
Payments
|
PEUC
Benefits
|
Extended
Benefits
|
Total
Payments - $
|
Total
# of Payments
|
|
23-Nov
|
$2,317,241
|
-
|
$325,945
|
$315,292
|
$1,009,103
|
$27,204
|
$3,994,048
|
10,630
|
|
24-Nov
|
$433,330
|
-
|
$1,613,014
|
$276,979
|
$149,585
|
$12,603
|
$2,485,022
|
7,298
|
|
25-Nov
|
$221,722
|
$25,200
|
$523,192
|
$341,833
|
$93,850
|
$6,478
|
$1,222,847
|
1,408
|
|
26-Nov
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
27-Nov
|
$166,415
|
-
|
$366,897
|
$291,688
|
$89,336
|
$1,194
|
$916,937
|
972
|
|
Total
|
$3,138,708
|
$25,200
|
$2,829,048
|
$1,225,792
|
$1,341,874
|
$47,479
|
$8,618,854
|
20,308
|
Payments
were not issued on November 26 due to the state holiday. 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.