Workforce Support and Flexibility Act of 2021

Workforce Support and Flexibility Act of 2021

This bill allows states to pay a lower weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation supplement to unemployed individuals until September 6, 2021, when the supplement is set to expire. Specifically, the bill allows a state to choose the weekly supplement amount that will be paid to qualified individuals, so long as the chosen amount is no greater than $300. Current law requires states to provide a $300 weekly supplement under the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2358 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2358

  To provide flexibility under the Federal Unemployment Compensation 
                                program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2021

Mr. Carper (for himself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide flexibility under the Federal Unemployment Compensation 
                                program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Workforce Support and Flexibility 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. FLEXIBILITY UNDER THE FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 2104(b)(3)(A) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9023(b)(3)(A)) is 
amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``September 6, 2021'' and 
        inserting ``the date of the enactment of the Workforce Support 
        and Flexibility Act of 2021''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) For weeks of unemployment ending 
                        after the date of the enactment of the 
                        Workforce Support and Flexibility Act of 2021, 
                        and ending on or before September 6, 2021, $300 
                        (or, upon written notice by the State to the 
                        Secretary, an amount established by the State 
                        that is less than $300 (but not less than 
                        $1).''.
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