FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020 file photo, a customer wears a face mask as they carry their order past a now hiring sign at an eatery in Richardson, Texas. On Thursday, Nov. 5, the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (Lm Otero, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
A program that provided extended unemployment benefits to out-of-work Virginians will end Saturday.
The Virginia Employment Commission on Wednesday announced the end of the state’s Extended Benefits program.
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The federally-funded program provided up to an addition 13 weeks of benefits to people who had already exhausted their regular benefits and any Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits.
It is ending because employment in Virginia has improved and no longer meets a federal threshold for the program to be funded. It could restart in the future.
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