If Americans are jobless because of the COVID-19 and are refused unemployment benefits, appeal the decision to courts. The federal law was to reach all Americans unemployed by the pandemic. If the states are failing to care for their citizens appeal the decisions by state unemployment agencies until it gets to a court and the hearing results in a decision based on the new laws.
The states are going to be receiving the monies directly from the federal government. Don't let them turn the unemployment benefits into a federal block grant so they can pay their bills.
To illustrate a far different approach by the State of New York; the unemployed applicants didn't have to wait for the federal monies to arrive, they received them immediately. New York knew it would be receiving federal dollars and took the initiative to be sure it's citizens had the monies they needed.
May 4, 2020
By David Lyons
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday (click here) he will order an inspector general to investigate how Florida paid nearly $80 million to build an unemployment claims system only to see it overwhelmed by thousands of jobless workers thrown out of work amid the coranavirus pandemic.
Speaking at a news conference in Tallahassee, DeSantis retraced nearly two months of troubles that faced the unemployed as many unsuccessfully applied for benefits or did not get paid if they were approved....
The federal law was written to REPLACE lost incomes by everyone effected, even those that were tip workers.
...When you add $600 (click here) to the national average unemployment payment — $371.88 a week at the end of 2019 — the replacement rate goes from 38 percent to almost exactly 100 percent. In other words, that amount is what it would take for Congress to replace what the average American worker receiving unemployment would have earned....
