Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Ending $300 Federal Unemployment Boost

Louisiana Governor Signs Bill Ending $300 Federal Unemployment Boost
Louisiana Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards in the Oval Office of the White House on April 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Ivan Pentchoukov
Updated:

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed legislation on June 16 that will end the $300 enhanced unemployment payments from the federal government at the end of next month, in exchange for increasing the maximum state unemployment benefit starting next year.

The new law to raise the state’s unemployment benefit goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2022.
Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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