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More on the settlement: Michigan's unemployment agency settles lawsuit for $55 million, will make changes More on claimants waiting on benefits: Years post-pandemic, some out-of-work Michiganders ...
Unemployment extensions are created by passing new legislation at the federal level, often referred to as an "unemployment extension bill". This new legislation is introduced and passed during times of high or above average unemployment rates. Unemployment extensions are set during a date range in order to estimate their federal cost.
Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency asked hundreds of thousands of claimants to recertify for benefits in July 2021 and then told those claimants they were overpaid benefits.
An estimated $27 billion of the increase was due to the $600/week increase in unemployment benefits due to the CARES Act. [20] On May 20, 2021, the Labor Department reported that there had been only 444,000 unemployment claims during the previous week, the lowest number since the beginning of the pandemic. [21]
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Since the start of the pandemic, mass unemployment has rocked the nation. To help mitigate the damage, two economic stimulus packages allotted unprecedented sums of money to create new benefits ...
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The Michigan Strategic Fund would take over the State Land Bank Fast Track Authority from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. [ 4 ] The Michigan Department of Talent and Economic Development came into existence on March 16, 2015 with the department's first director being Steve Arwood, concurrently CEO of the MEDC.