State's jobless to begin receiving $300 payments this weekend
The state of
The funds, which are from a federal program administered by the
They are a partial replacement for the additional
The
The state's application to the Lost Wages Assistance program, which was authorized by an executive order by President
About 330,000 Minnesotans are expected to receive the supplemental payments. But about 4% to 5% of those currently receiving benefits will not qualify because they fall under the threshold stipulated by the program that recipients must be receiving at least
DEED said Friday that the payments for the first five weeks from
Workers do not need to do anything special to apply for this program as long as they have already been receiving unemployment benefits during the specified weeks. DEED will automatically send the extra funds to them.
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