LD1564 - Unemployment Insurance

(2021)

An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Unemployment Compensation

What is the bill?

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic thousands of Mainers struggled to receive unemployment benefits due to understaffing, a flood of claims and an urgent need to update Maine’s unemployment system. LD 1564 modernizes Maine’s unemployment insurance program to ensure that Maine workers will receive timely and adequate unemployment benefits. The bill creates a Peer Workforce Navigator program to support laid off workers to access unemployment benefits and connect to good jobs and training programs, increases supplemental UI benefits for dependent children, improves eligibility for partial benefits and will improve the number of laid off workers who actually receive unemployment benefits.

What happened?

Enacted into law (Passed by the Legislature, Signed by the Governor)

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