The secretary of the Department of Labor, Carlos Rivera, has clarified today that the benefits of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) will no longer be paid from April 5, 2021.
As he said in an interview with Radio Island, this date is set in the new law signed by President Donald Trump which includes $ 600 checks for citizens.
The PUA will officially run until March 14, however, the final payments will go until April 5.
Rivera explained that the legislation “also establishes an exit process for citizens in the sense that they are making some kind of plan or a transition to start in the labor market.”
This economic relief measure established the extension of the PUA for 11 weeks.
The Secretary of Labor also explained that the extension covers both those people who have already received the benefit or those who want to apply now.
Listen to his expressions here:
