Source: Gary D. Robertson, WRAL, 6/3/21

 North Carolina would do away with the $300-per-week supplemental benefits for the unemployed provided by the federal government during the pandemic in legislation approved Thursday by the state House. The roughly 245,000 people in North Carolina currently qualified for unemployment benefits are receiving the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on top of their other state or federal aid. The program is set to expire nationwide in early September, but about two dozen states already have decided to cut off the supplement early.

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