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handle is hein.crs/govedue0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional aResearch Service States Opting Out of COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Agreements Updated June 24, 2021 In response to the recent recession caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Congress created several temporary Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (PL. 116-136), and extended these programs through P.L. 116-260 and P.L. 117-2. Recently, 25 states announced their intention to terminate their agreements to pay COVID-19 UI benefits. The temporary, COVID-19 UI programs are authorized through September 4, 2021, and include the $300 weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compens ation (FPUC), which supplements all UI benefits (originally, FPUC was authorized at $600 a week under the CARES Act through July 25, 2020); Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which provides up to 49 weeks of additional UI benefits for individuals who exhaust regular Unemployment Compensation (UC) and are able to, available for, and actively seeking work; and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provides up to 75 weeks of a temporary, federal UI program for individuals who are (1) not otherwise eligible for UI benefits (e.g., self-employed, independent contractors, gig economy workers); (2) unemployed, partially unemployed, or unable to work due to a specific COVID-19- related reason; and (3) not able to telework and are not receiving any paid leave. Further, P.L. 117-2 authorized an additional, temporary UI benefit: * Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), which provides an additional $100 per week benefit augmentation for unemployed workers with previous earned income from both wage-and-salary jobs and self-employment who are receiving UC, Extended Benefit (EB) payments, or PEUC (but not PUA). Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11679 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Membersand Committeesof Congress-