Jan 24 | NYS Partial UI On January 18th we had a huge WIN for unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers! According to Governor Cuomo, Partial UI in NYS will now b...
Jan 15 | XPUA Response to Biden's Plan ExtendPUA.org's Co-Founders Statement on President-Elect Biden's Rescue Plan. In President-Elect Biden’s plan, we are thrilled to finally...
Jan 14 | Biden's Relief Plan First, we state that this is a plan NOT a bill. This proposal can be used by Congress to write legislation, there is still room for chang...
Jan 13 | Unemployment Taxes As the time to file our taxes approaches, we wanted to give our community a brief rundown of what to expect. Unfortunately, yes, unemploy...
Jan 8 | Dec Jobs Report The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the December jobs report on Friday. With only about half of the pandemic job losses recovered...
Dec 27 | Bill Signed By Trump Just after 8pm on Sunday December 27th Trump finally signed the omnibus bill that contains the relief bill passed by Congress a week ago....
Dec 23 | Presidential Approval Trump has threatened to veto the relief bill. He has not officially vetoed and he is "still deciding" if he will. Current state of play i...
Dec 21 | Bill Text Details The bill text has finally been released. Full text is here. It's over 5,000 pages because it is wrapped into the omnibus bill. ADDITIONAL...
Dec 21 | Relief Deal Summary and Statement ExtendPUA.org Statement on December Relief Deal Congressional leadership has finally reached a deal on the relief bill. It is 6 months la...
Dec 15 | Live Events Hearing An XPUA Statement From Co-Founder, Stephanie Freed: Today the Senate committee on commerce held a hearing on COVID19's Impact on the Live...
Dec 14 | Bipartisan Text The bipartisan relief package text has finally been released. It has nothing new or surprising from what we have learned over the last we...
Dec 9 | Bipartisan Details First, we will briefly acknowledge movements made by the White House and McConnell so that your questions are answered. Then we encourage...
Dec 4 | Nov Jobs Report Another Jobs Report, this time broken down in graphic format. Sources for this information include the BLS November Jobs Report Economic ...
Dec 2 | BiPartisan Progress Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer released a join statement today saying they are willing to compromise to get emergency relief out to A...
Dec 1 | McConnell proposal Today we've seen a bipartisan proposal from members of the Senate, an Act extending unemployment from Democratic Senators, and a statemen...
Dec 1 | Holiday Relief Act Separate from the bipartisan proposal that just hit the press this morning and is detailed in the previous post here, 5 Senators have pro...
Dec 1 | Bipartisan Proposal There has already been progress on the bipartisan conversations we mentioned last night. The bipartisan group of Senators we mentioned we...
Nov 30 | Bipartisan talks While we have seen little movement over the holidays from leadership besides political posturing on both sides, we are hearing growing bi...
Nov 16 | Update So where are we now? The Senate returned to DC last week. The House returned this week. Negotiations between the White House and Pelosi h...
Nov 6 | Oct Jobs Report Another jobs day, another month without relief, another day of spin from people an d politicians who aren't experiencing the real life st...
Nov 5 | Post Election Hope The highly contentious election polarized elected officials on a relief bill. Now that campaigning has ended, it seems that everyone fina...
Oct 28 | Negotiations Standstill This is a discouraging update so we will first say that we have not and will not stop fighting for relief. As part of the SCOTUS debates ...