Program for extra $300 payments for Marylanders left unemployed during pandemic starts Friday

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Program for extra $300 payments for Marylanders left unemployed during pandemic starts Friday

A program to help Maryland residents left unemployed because of the coronavirus crisis .

The Lost Wages Assistance program is launching ahead of schedule after Maryland applied for and was approved to receive a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in August.

An executive order signed聽by President Donald Trump on Aug. 8 allows FEMA to spend up to $44 billion from its Disaster Relief Fund to provide lost wages assistance to states.

in unemployment benefits to residents who lost wages because of the pandemic, on top of a regular $100 payment from the state.

There will be a total of six weeks of $300 payments.

The federal benefits are retroactive to the weeks ending Aug. 1 through Sept. 5.

Residents will be notified through the state’s and by email.

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海角社区app’s Michelle Basch contributed to this report.

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