The
Montana Department of Labor & Industry (DLI) today announced that just
under $12 million in Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments were issued the week of
January 4 through January 8, 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.
- Extended Benefits payments
issued for weeks claimed and not previously approved, through UI benefit
week ending November 14, 2020.
PEUC, PUA
and FPUC benefits are 100% federally funded
. Below is a data breakdown of outgoing UI payments
for the week of January 4 through January 8:
|
Date
Payments Distributed
|
Regular
UI Benefits
|
Reg
UI & PEUC FPUC Payments
|
PUA
Benefits
|
PUA-FPUC
Payments
|
PEUC
Benefits
|
Extended
Benefits
|
Total
Payments - $
|
|
4-Jan
|
$3,087,429
|
$3,227,100
|
$162,743
|
$74,763
|
$785,771
|
$8,559
|
$7,377,596
|
|
5-Jan
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
6-Jan
|
$1,238,273
|
$807,000
|
$369,993
|
$66,487
|
$536,453
|
$11,281
|
$3,042,643
|
|
7-Jan
|
$283,395
|
$157,200
|
$122,609
|
$82,192
|
$111,267
|
$4,531
|
$771,522
|
|
8-Jan
|
$242,506
|
$110,700
|
$136,366
|
$74,120
|
$83,355
|
$5,442
|
$661,334
|
|
Total
|
$4,851,602
|
$4,302,000
|
$791,711
|
$297,562
|
$1,516,846
|
$29,813
|
$11,853,094
|
Payments were not issued on
Tuesday, January 5, due to necessary software changes needed to implement
program extensions under the new federal Continued Assistance for Unemployed
Workers Act of 2020. All payments scheduled for Tuesday were processed and distributed
on Wednesday, January 6.
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.