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Unemployed Texans will no longer receive an extra $300 in weekly payments
By Cassandra Pollock Texans receiving unemployment benefits who qualified for an extra $300 in week-
ly jobless payments issued by the Trump administration will no longer receive the additional funds after claims from last week
Volunteers from the Central Texas Food Bank distributed disaster relief food boxes at the Waco ISD stadium in April. State officials announced Wednesday that an extra $300 in weekly federal unemployment benefits will stop. Texans have filed nearly 3.4 million unemployment claims since the coronavirus pandemic began. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
are paid, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. t’s unclear whether more federal relief could be on the way for unemployed Texans. According to a report by The Washington Post on Wednesday,
White House officials were considering an additional round of executive actions, including one to address unemployment benefits. In August, President Donald Trump announced the extra weekly payments af-
ter an additional $600 weekly payment approved by Congress to help offset losses tied to the pandemic expired in July. The Trump administration said the federal government would provide $300 per week and that states could decide whether to contribute an additional $100, which Texas did not do. The state applied for federal funding roughly two weeks after the president issued his order. Since the pandemic began in March, nearly 3.4 million Texans had applied for unemployment assistance as of Aug. 29. Texas has seen record-worst jobless rates in the months since the start of the pandemic, and the
state’s economy has, as the state comptroller has described multiple times, entered into a recession. After news of the additional funding was made, the workforce commission said over 347,000 Texans receiving unemployment benefits would not qualify for the additional $300 weekly payment as of Aug. 24. A spokesperson for the agency said some people did not qualify because they did not indicate they had lost their jobs because of the pandemic when they filed for unemployment. Others did not qualify because they were receiving less than $100 in weekly unemployment benefits.
