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States Opting Out of COVID-19
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Agreements
Updated June 24, 2021
In response to the recent recession caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
Congress created several temporary Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs through the Coronavirus
Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (PL. 116-136), and extended these programs through
P.L. 116-260 and P.L. 117-2. Recently, 25 states announced their intention to terminate their agreements to
pay COVID-19 UI benefits.
The temporary, COVID-19 UI programs are authorized through September 4, 2021, and include
 the $300 weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compens ation (FPUC), which
supplements all UI benefits (originally, FPUC was authorized at $600 a week under the
CARES Act through July 25, 2020);
 Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provides up to 49
weeks of additional UI benefits for individuals who exhaust regular Unemployment
Compensation (UC) and are able to, available for, and actively seeking work; and
 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides up to 75 weeks of a
temporary, federal UI program for individuals who are (1) not otherwise eligible for UI
benefits (e.g., self-employed, independent contractors, gig economy workers); (2)
unemployed, partially unemployed, or unable to work due to a specific COVID-19-
related reason; and (3) not able to telework and are not receiving any paid leave.
Further, P.L. 117-2 authorized an additional, temporary UI benefit:
*  Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), which provides an additional
$100 per week benefit augmentation for unemployed workers with previous earned
income from both wage-and-salary jobs and self-employment who are receiving UC,
Extended Benefit (EB) payments, or PEUC (but not PUA).
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