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Maryland dumping pandemic unemployment benefits next month
In a little over a month, Maryland will eliminate enhanced federal unemployment benefits, and reinstate job search requirements.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland will eliminate pandemic federal unemployment benefits in a little over a month, Governor Larry Hogan announced on Tuesday.
In addition to cutting off the special benefits instituted during the pandemic, the state will reinstate work search requirements.
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The pandemic-era benefits will be cut off on July 3, while the work search requirements will go into effect on July 4.
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The governor says the move was made possible by the steps the state has taken in the vaccination campaign.
On Monday, the state announced that at least 70% of all adult Marylanders have had
at least one vaccine shot.
Businesses – and the lobby groups representing them – say they’re having trouble filling positions despite the fact that most of them are fully open for business.
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Some say the unemployment benefits people have been receiving during the pandemic are too generous.
Neighboring Virginia has already begun re-establishing criteria for unemployment in an effort to restore its work force.