INDIANAPOLIS – Hoosiers who are receiving regular unemployment insurance benefits have begun seeing the additional $600 weekly payment from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.
Though the additional funds began arriving in some unemployment insurance accounts on Friday, the vast majority of claimants will see payments being made this week. Vouchers must be filed each week in order to continue to receive benefits. It is recommended to file the vouchers on a Tuesday or after during the week, taking the high stress off the historic traffic now hitting the DWD’s Uplink online system, state officials said.
The CARES Act within the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program provides those individuals with the additional $600 weekly benefit. The benefit is payable effective March 29, for any week of unemployment until July 31, 2020. The state’s workforce development department will pay this benefit retroactively to March 29. The $600 FPUC benefit is taxable and is subject to child support withholding.
To put these payments into perspective, this past weekend alone, Friday through Sunday as these payments were starting to be added, $276 million in payments were made over the three-day period, workforce development officials said. In all of 2019, $230 million was paid out through the Indiana unemployment insurance assistance program.
For more information, visit Unemployment.IN.gov.
