Payments Start Going Out Under Trump Administration`s Unemployment Supplement

Payments under the Trump administration`s Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program have started going out to unemployment insurance recipients in Wisconsin, nearly three months after a previous federal supplement expired and seven weeks after the federal government approved the state`s application.

The program, created by President Donald Trump in early August, supplements state-level unemployment benefits by $300 a week in Wisconsin.

An estimated 120,000 recipients in Wisconsin will receive payments this week, with the first large wave of payments sent out Tuesday night, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The department began sending out payments to smaller groups of recipients Thursday...
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