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To: All Workers
All Workers With Reduced Income or Furloughed due to Covid-19 should receive PUA.
Sign the petition to support making the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payment available to everyone who lost wages due to lay off or reduced hours regardless of base income limits for traditional eligibility.
Why is this important?
Because many Americans are losing income because they fall into the traditional unemployment base income limits to receive benefits. Many Americans continue to work second jobs or reduced hours that put them over the limits to qualify for PUA even though they are making substantially less money, and not getting 100% of their traditional income. The PUA was set up to help Americans replace 100% of their income, but many of us are being excluded due to the base income limits. Yet people who are getting the PUA benefits are not working at all and making substantially more than those working reduced hours or second jobs. Everyone who lost wages or were furloughed should be entitled to the PUA benefits equally and traditional base income limits should not be used if you income has been reduced or lost as a direct result of Covid-19.