Republican governors in states including Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Maryland, and Texas who ended their federally funded pandemic unemployment programs early over fears that the programs were keeping people from returning to work now have another problem to worry about: lawsuits from groups of unemployed workers demanding the programs be reinstated.
Tami Luhby of CNN has reported that earlier this year, up to 26 different states began “terminating early at least one of the three pandemic unemployment insurance programs Congress enacted in March 2020 and extended twice.”
Luhby added that “most of these states have already stopped sending the benefits to their residents,” citing “workforce shortages.”
