We the undersigned believe that an immediate 12-month extension of unemployment benefits (including in-process training approvals) be implemented and expedited for veterans and people whose benefits ended or will end in 2020 due to the emergency COVID-19 pandemic which is reducing employment opportunities.
Why is this important?
We are bread winners for our families who have worked steadily throughout our lives, who paid into unemployment insurance and have been actively looking for jobs, networking, and using every resource available to us. With companies throughout New Jersey and all around the United States slowing down or putting on hold hiring processes because of severe financial impact of critical and necessary measures put in place to slow the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus, we have become financially crippled, with no possible sources of income coming to us anytime soon. Though the federal or state may eventually provide relief, the immediate access to unemployment funds and benefits (such as the approval for training that was in process before the virus and now on hold, along with regular unemployment payments) is necessary for our own and our family’s well-being. We want to be included in relief efforts currently being drafted.
We must support veterans who have given their lives to this country and the workers who want to work, but are unable to get jobs due to this virus. It is important to New Jersey’s economy to support unemployed workers immediately.
Tell Governor Phil Murphy to publicly support the proposal and sign it as part of the COVID-19 Emergency Relief.
