The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that over
28,000 Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments totaling over $11M were issued over
the week of August 10 through August 14, providing benefits to eligible
Montanans.
That figure includes regular UI
benefits, Extended Benefits, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits
and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits. Federal
Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payments shown below were issued for
weeks claimed between the UI week ending April 4 through July 25, 2020 not
previously approved. The UI week ending July 25, 2020 was the last full week
the extra $600 was authorized under the federal CARES Act.
|
Date
Payment Distributed
|
Regular
UI Payments
|
Reg.
UI & PEUC FPUC Benefits
|
PUA
Payments
|
PUA-FPUC
Payments
|
PEUC
Benefits
|
Extended
Benefits
|
Total
Payments
|
Total
# of Payments
|
|
10-Aug
|
$4,397,919
|
$418,800
|
$100,933
|
$193,200
|
$568,261
|
$12,017
|
$5,705,701
|
17,951
|
|
11-Aug
|
$707,356
|
$254,400
|
$942,145
|
$259,200
|
$111,624
|
$794
|
$2,284,106
|
6,873
|
|
12-Aug
|
$434,490
|
$136,200
|
$166,970
|
$206,294
|
$68,426
|
$1,446
|
$1,013,553
|
1,624
|
|
13-Aug
|
$396,955
|
$159,000
|
$184,682
|
$262,857
|
$45,616
|
-
|
$1,055,817
|
1,173
|
|
14-Aug
|
$491,223
|
-
|
$133,009
|
$238,531
|
$78,295
|
$2,753
|
$949,459
|
934
|
|
Total
|
$6,427,943
|
$968,400
|
$1,527,739
|
$1,160,082
|
$872,222
|
$17,010
|
$11,008,636
|
28,555
|
The above
figures do not represent the number of individuals who have received payment.
Individual claimants could have two payments in that total, or one payment
representing two 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.