Denver, CO – Colorado is finally requiring people to search for jobs to maintain unemployment benefits. This requirement is long overdue if you ask us.
Colorado has already paid out $4.02 billion in unemployment benefits since the COVID-19 shutdown. We will break this down in more detail soon.
Thankfully, Colorado is finally planning to audit those on unemployment. Hopefully, this pushes some to get back to work as Colorado’s economy struggles to get going after Polis’ overreaching and arbitrary shutdown orders.
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Here is the alert posted to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE).
ALERT: The Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program, which has been providing claimants with $600 in additional unemployment benefits each week, expires the week ending July 25, 2020. Learn about support available here
From colorado.gov/pacific/cdle/unemployment
ALERT: New work-search requirements are in place. You are now required to complete work-search activities every week to be paid benefits unless you are job attached and expect to return to your regular schedule by July 5. View the new work-search requirements here.
Now, the “work-search requirements” are fairly lax. People only need to fill out an application for a job, create a profile on a networking site, or take several other actions the state considers “searching for work.”
Many people will likely put in applications for jobs where they do not expect to be hired.
Additionally, the $600 per week “Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation” program just ended. Colorado paid out $2.18 billion over the course of the program.
Hopefully, these changes help push people to go back to work in Colorado.
Even with these changes, Colorado’s economy will take a long time to recover from one of the most restrictive (and ongoing) shutdowns in the United States. Thanks, Polis.
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