PUA benefits will apply to self-employed workers, independent contractors, those whose wage history isn't long enough to qualify for unemployment, and those who have exhausted unemployment benefits.

PUA benefits will apply to self-employed workers, independent contractors, those whose wage history isn't long enough to qualify for unemployment, and those who have exhausted unemployment benefits.

Called PUA, for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, it’s meant to go to people who are out of of a job but do the kind of work that doesn’t allow them to qualify for any state benefits.

The PUA, which was created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, provided temporary benefits to workers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19-related reasons.

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The PUA provides up to 39 weeks of financial benefits to workers who qualify. Under the CARES Act, this program is retroactive with an initial start date of Jan. 27, 2020.

In contrast, identity theft accounted for the majority of overpayments in the PUA system; $2.3 billion in PUA benefits were paid out in this manner.

The denial of her regular claim would be offset with PUA benefits, she’s told. “I really just don’t fully understand what’s going on at all,” Hayes replies on Jan. 8, 2021.

She is not alone. Mark Sanderlin, also unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, said he also saw a lapse in his PUA benefits at the end of October when he had to recertify.

Together, their actions resulted in $311,943 in PUA benefits being wrongly paid. Records indicated that several benefit cards were sent to Cauthon's home address, where they were used to buy ...

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