Hey, guys, it's Ginny Silver today on July 30 th, the California
Edd has issued important news.
If you are a Fed Ed claimant, if you're currently collecting
a Fed Ed extension or plan to collect a feed extension, there
is important updates to how long you may be able to collect
benefits. I'm going to go through not only what is in the
press release, but I'm going to show you the documentation
that has triggered this change, which comes from the Department
of Labor now in today's press release date of July 30 th,
the California Edd goes over how the Pandemic related federal
programs, 300 dollars boost PEC and Pua are coming to an
end claim week ending September fourth.
This is not new information, but then they go on to state
that in addition, a significant reduction in federal state
extended duration, which is known as Fed Ed benefits, takes
effect even earlier on August 8 2021.
They go on to state that due to improving economic conditions
in California, the state no longer meets the federal threshold
for offering maximum Fed Ed benefits up to 20 weeks.
Thus, under federal rules, any amount over 13 weeks worth
of benefits cannot be paid starting August eight.
Now.
This information differs from the information that was available
on the Edd website as recently as yesterday.
Until today, the Edd stated on their website under the latest
update section that the new legislation continues the federally
funded fed ed through September 11 2021, providing up to 20
weeks of benefits.
Now, typically, if Fed Ed is activated, it provides 13 weeks
of additional unemployment benefits to UI claimants in the
form of an extension.
But to the Pandemic and the Pandemic related legislation,
we had an additional seven weeks of federally funded extended
benefits, which brought the total number of weeks from 13
up to 20.
The Edd previously stated that these additional seven weeks
would be available through September 11, but in today's press
release they release the information that these additional
seven weeks will no longer be available starting August eight
th. They state that based on current conditions, starting
August eighth, Fed Ed extensions will be recalculated at
a maximum benefit of up to 13 weeks, and Fed Ed benefits
will likely not be payable for periods of unemployment after
September fourth.
I ask my contact in the media Department upon receiving this
press release, what exactly happened to change that September
eleventh date to move it to now be August 8 th.
He then provided me with a Department of Labor document which
was sent out on July 18 th.
This trigger notice explains when federal state extended
unemployment benefits are to be triggered on or off in each
state. If you look at the state of California to the left
of it, you will notice an add symbol that signifies that
California is selected to utilize the total unemployment
rate to determine whether or not Fed Ed is switched on or
off the total unemployment rate means the total number all
together of all types of claimants collecting unemployment
benefits. The total unemployment rate is used for the State
of California as opposed to the insured unemployment rate.
If California utilize the insured unemployment rate, then
it would not count all of the Pua claimants who are receiving
benefits but are not classified as insured unemployment recipients.
The unemployment rate for the State of California was released
on July 16 2021 by the Edd.
The state unemployment rate was 7.7% for the month of June
in 2021.
On July 18 th, the Department of Labor issued this amended
trigger notice stating an amendment to when the state unemployment
departments can trigger on or off those seven weeks of federal
additional extended benefits.
The State of California must have a total unemployment rate
noted here at or above in order to indicate the Fed Ed program
for those additional seven weeks on and the Department of
Labor, which issues the guidance to the States on how to
carry out the programs noted here that the end date for California
additional seven weeks of Fed Ed is to be August seven th
2021. So what this means is that feed for people who use
all their unemployment benefits during a period of high unemployment
and your UI, PEUC, we're currently collecting Fed Ed can utilize
up to 20 weeks of benefits for weeks of unemployment that
are between May 20 th 2020 and August 7 th 2021.
After August 7 th 2021, those additional seven weeks
are no longer available in the State of California.
That means that up to 13 weeks of Fed Ed benefits can be
utilized between August eight th 2021 and September 4 2021.
This means that if you have already collected 13 weeks or
more worth of benefits and August 8 th comes, you will
no longer be able to collect Fed Ed.
Now, I have additional questions about this that I am sending
over to the Edd, which still remain unclear.
I don't understand why the Edd did not share all of this
information previously on their website.
I don't understand why they took from July 18 th until the
30 th in order to share this information since it was given
to them from the Department of Labor on July.
And I don't understand why there are still publications currently
circulating about Fed Ed that state other requirements.
Regardless, I want you guys to understand that starting on
August eight th, there will only be up to 13 weeks available
of Fed Ed to collect and the Edge has stated to anticipate
the Fed Ed program to be switched off on September 4 th.
Okay, you guys.
So I know this is not information that you want to hear,
but I do hope that it is helpful to you, and I hope that
the detailed explanation of what the Edd failed to explain
in their press release is also helpful in terms of explaining
why this is happening and what caused it to happen?
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