Pandemic Unemployment Benefits, Including Self-Employed individuals
In This SectionPandemic Unemployment Assistance has been extended, providing federal unemployment benefits for self-employed and gig workers typically not eligible for state unemployment benefits, including individuals who are unable to work due to a number of COVID-related reasons. Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation benefits are reinstated at $300 per week, through September 6, 2021. An extra $100 per week will be available through September 6, 2021 for workers who have both W-2 and self-employment income but whose base benefit calculation doesn’t take their self-employment into account.
- U.S. Department of Labor Issues PUA Guidance to States (PDF) (December 30, 2020)
- Find Your State Department of Labor
In This Section
- Federal Assistance
- Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (aka Save Our Stages)
- Paycheck Protection Program and Loan Forgiveness
- Employee Retention Credits
- Families First Paid Leave Provisions
- SBA Economic Injury Disaster Relief and Loan Advance
- Relief for Nonprofits Self-Insuring Unemployment Benefits
- International Artist Visas
- New Charitable Giving Incentives
- National Endowment for the Arts Funding
- Background
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