Judge suspends early cutoff of unemployment aid in Indiana, saying it could cause "irreparable harm"
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An Indiana judge said the state must continue paying enhanced unemployment benefits until a lawsuit on the issue is decided, ruling that ending the payments could cause "irreparable harm" if out-of-work residents can't pay for housing or food.
The preliminary injunction comes as 26 states — with all but one, Louisiana, run by a Republican governor — are in the process of ending pandemic-related unemployment benefits for millions of people. On June 19, Indiana ended the supplementary federal unemployment aid, which included an extra $300 a week in payments, rather than allowing them to expire in early September. Indiana's Department of Workforce Development, which handles unemployment benefits, told CBS MoneyWatch that it is "determining how to proceed because the federal programs no longer exist after their termination on June 19."
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