JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (97.1 FM TALK) - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced on Tuesday that the state will end participation in all federal pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs. That includes the extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits from a COVID-19 pandemic program.
Parson says many businesses are still struggling, not because of COVID-19, but because they can't find people to fill the jobs.
"While these benefits provided supplementary financial assistance during the height of COVID-19, they were intended to be temporary, and their continuation has instead worsened the workforce issues we are facing," Parson says. "It's time that we end these programs that have ultimately incentivized people to stay out of the workforce."
The programs that will be terminated on June 12 are:
• Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
• Emergency Unemployment Relief for Government Entities and Nonprofit Organizations
• Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
• Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation
• 100 Percent Reimbursement of Short-Time Compensation Benefit Costs Paid Under State Law
• Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation.
You can watch the full announcement, here:
