The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that $7.6M in
Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments were issued the week of December 28
through January 1, providing benefits to eligible Montanans.
That
figure includes:
- Regular
UI benefits.
- Pandemic
Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) benefits.
- Pandemic
Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits.
- Federal
Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payments issued for weeks
claimed and not previously approved between UI weeks ending April 4
through July 25, 2020.
- Extended
Benefits payments issued for weeks claimed and not previously approved,
through UI benefit week ending November 14, 2020.
- Interim
Pandemic Assistance (IPA) payments for weeks claimed and not previously
approved for the four UI benefit weeks ending November 28 through December
19, 2020. DLI has completed all possible IPA disbursements.
Below is a
data breakdown of outgoing UI payments for the week of December 28 through
January 1:
|
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 - $
|
|
28-Dec
|
$2,986,694
|
-
|
$138,551
|
$63,112
|
$139,200
|
$39,600
|
$862,718
|
$5,378
|
$4,022,872
|
|
29-Dec
|
$676,394
|
$7,200
|
$1,210,370
|
$79,200
|
$63,200
|
$117,000
|
$125,879
|
$7,558
|
$2,119,781
|
|
30-Dec
|
$369,692
|
-
|
$305,045
|
$92,643
|
-
|
-
|
$95,886
|
$7,617
|
$874,031
|
|
31-Dec
|
$231,703
|
-
|
$291,357
|
$93,648
|
-
|
-
|
$48,824
|
$4,558
|
$634,937
|
|
1-Jan
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
Total
|
$4,264,483
|
$7,200
|
$1,945,323
|
$328,603
|
$202,400
|
$156,600
|
$1,133,307
|
$25,111
|
$7,651,621
|
Payments
were not issued on January 1 due to the state holiday. DLI is working
diligently to implement the programmatic changes needed for the stimulus UI
programs passed under the federal Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers
Act of 2020. The Department will announce by press release, on dli.mt.gov and
social media when the first payments under the Act have been issued.
Claimants
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