North Carolina workers unemployed due to COVID-19, are eligible to receive an additional $300 per week from FEMA. | Bytemarks/Flickr
North Carolina workers unemployed due to COVID-19, are eligible to receive an additional $300 per week from FEMA. | Bytemarks/Flickr
North Carolina received a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $300 in addition to regular weekly benefits to workers unemployed due to COVID-19.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will work with FEMA to get the funding to state residents who qualify, FEMA said in an Aug. 21 news release.
The funds come from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund. On Aug. 8, President Trump released up to $44 billion to aid Americans who lost wages because of the pandemic, the FEAM said in the release.
North Carolina’s application in the Lost Wages Assistance program received approval from FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor.
North Carolina will administer the payments through its unemployment office.
The lost wages payments can be given to eligible residents retroactively beginning with the unemployment week that ended Aug. 1, FEMA reported on its Lost Wages guidelines webpage.
Claimants have to self-certify that their unemployment or partial unemployment is due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of their claims process, the website reported.
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