The extension made available through the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act will provide an additional 11 weeks of benefits to those on the PUA program. “Knowing that the holidays and expiration of the CARES Act funds have put a strain on people throughout our state, our agency continues to work extremely hard to initiate the new programs.”
This will provide benefits to people who are self-employed or those who were found ineligible for state unemployment insurance benefits,” said DEW Executive Director Dan Ellzey. “After implementing the $300 FPUC payment to South Carolinians in record time, we are now pleased to announce we have begun the PUA extension program less than a week later. Over the weekend, the Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) began issuing payments to claimants who have exhausted their 39 weeks provided through the CARES Act. – The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program extension is now active in South Carolina. Department of Employment and Workforce Begins Paying PUA Extension ProgramĬolumbia, S.C.