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Relating to the collection of unemployment benefit payments and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If someone received unemployment benefits they weren't supposed to get during a COVID-19 disaster emergency, the state cannot try to take that money back if the person wasn't at fault. This rule applies to people who received those benefits starting on March 8, 2020.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits the department of workforce development from pursuing the recovery of any overpayments of unemployment insurance benefits made to any individual who received such benefits to which the individual was not entitled without fault on the part of the individual if such benefits were paid during the period of a declaration of disaster emergency by the governor pertaining to COVID-19. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to unemployment benefits received on or after March 8, 2020.
Lobbying
2 for · 0 against · 2 undecided · Who →