unemployment benefits

The state Department of Labor reports it has now received more than one million applications for unemployment benefits since mid-March.  “I think the number is shocking whenever you hear it,” said Frederick McKinney, a Quinnipiac University business professor. “You have to remember this decline in economic activity has been the greatest decline in economic activity since the Great Depression.”...

The state Department of Labor reports it has now received more than one million applications for unemployment benefits since mid-March.

The state announced Wednesday that it will expand a program designed to allow companies to reduce the hours of employees while allowing those employees to apply for partial unemployment benefits to make up for the lost wages.

The grant funding will allow Connecticut to provide an additional $300 per week to those who became unemployed due to COVID-19, on top of their regular unemployment benefit.

Some Connecticut residents say they’ve depending on an extra federal weekly unemployment benefit to help pay bills during the pandemic.