Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 8/24/20

 The state applied Thursday for a federal unemployment boost that should add at least $300 to people's weekly unemployment checks. On Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved the request. State Division of Employment Security spokeswoman Kerry McComber confirmed the approval in an email to WRAL News. "DES has been working to reprogram its benefits system and set up the accounting process to make payments to eligible North Carolinians as quickly as possible," McComber said. 

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