More than a dozen states have been approved to pay unemployed workers $ 300 a week authorized by President Trump – but New York has not even asked for the cash, according to a website that follows the applications.
Kentucky is the last state to give the green light to distribute up to $ 44 billion in total funding from the Lost Wages Assistance program, according to a Friday news release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Free workers in Arizona are getting all the benefits related to coronavirus, according to CNBC.
Eleven other states – Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah – have also been approved to receive subsidies, according to FEMA.
But New York has not applied for subsidy, according to UnemploymentPUA.com, which last updated the state’s status on Sunday.
Secretary of State Andrew Cuomo dismissed Trump’s plan as “ridiculous” and “impossible” when it was first announced and included a requirement that states raise an additional $ 100 per week for each unemployed worker.
That mandate was quickly demanded by the U.S. Department of Labor to cover benefits already paid.
Only Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia have agreed to provide the extra money, according to the UnemploymentPUA.
Last week, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem rejected Trump’s offer of unemployment benefits, saying her state was ‘happy’ it was not needed.
“The South Dakota economy, never shutting down, has recovered nearly 80 percent of our job losses,” she said at the time.
Cuomo’s office and the State Department of Labor did not immediately return requests for comment.
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