The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that $12.8M in
Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments were issued the week of December 7 through
December 11, providing benefits to eligible Montanans. The $200 weekly Interim
Pandemic Assistance (IPA) benefit, available for a four-week period ending
December 19, 2020, accounted for nearly 30% of that amount.
Other payments included regular UI
benefits, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits, and
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) 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. Due to the decline in Montana’s insured
unemployment rate, Extended Benefits triggered off as of UI benefit week ending
November 14. EB payments shown below were issued for weeks claimed and not
previously approved.
Below is a data breakdown of
outgoing UI payments for the week of December 7 through December 11:
|
Date Payments
Distributed
|
Regular UI Benefits
|
Reg UI & PEUC FPUC
Payments
|
PUA Benefits
|
PUA-FPUC Payments
|
IPA Payments
|
PUA IPA Payments
|
PEUC Benefits
|
Extended Benefits
|
Total Payments - $
|
|
7-Dec
|
$2,440,909
|
-
|
$312,123
|
$238,093
|
$1,554,600
|
$34,200
|
$940,529
|
$7,524
|
$5,529,860
|
|
8-Dec
|
$2,032,647
|
-
|
$1,716,873
|
$181,884
|
$201,800
|
$1,358,200
|
$134,115
|
$21,727
|
$4,077,711
|
|
9-Dec
|
$580,469
|
$27,600
|
$374,675
|
$163,880
|
$116,400
|
$155,600
|
$139,546
|
$15,777
|
$1,316,183
|
|
10-Dec
|
$495,009
|
-
|
$342,242
|
$162,006
|
$85,200
|
$93,800
|
$121,166
|
$3,517
|
$1,108,026
|
|
11-Dec
|
$371,335
|
$20,400
|
$238,634
|
$64,683
|
$51,400
|
$74,600
|
$86,879
|
$1,730
|
$788,852
|
|
Total
|
$5,920,369
|
$48,000
|
$2,984,547
|
$810,546
|
$2,009,400
|
$1,716,400
|
$1,422,235
|
$50,275
|
$12,820,632
|
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.