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	"author_name": "Maine AFL-CIO",
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	"title": "Tell legislators to fix Maine&#x27;s unemployment system",
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	"description": "Dear friends, Have you or someone you know struggled to get unemployment benefits during the pandemic? Have you or someone you know been looking for help to get into a good apprenticeship or training program or find a good paying job? You&#x27;re not alone! The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the state&#x27;s unemployment system -- and our reemployment system to help people get into good paying jobs or good apprenticeship or training programs -- needs to be strengthened and improved. The Maine Legislature is considering an amended version of LD 1564, “An Act To Strengthen the Unemployment Insurance System To Better Serve Maine Workers,” which will help fix the state unemployment system and strengthen our workforce training programs. LD 1564, sponsored by Senator Eloise Vitelli, comes directly from the experience of Mainers laid off during the pandemic. It will modernize Maine’s unemployment insurance program to ensure that Maine workers will receive timely and adequate unemployment benefits and that our system runs smoothly to help people get back into good paying jobs and high quality apprenticeship and training programs. Please use this form to send an email to Governor Janet Mills as well as your State Representative and State Senator and tell them to SUPPORT LD 1564. This bill: • Creates a Peer Workforce Navigator program to help unemployed workers connect to apprenticeship and training programs, find good paying jobs, access unemployment benefits and identify problems in the system. • Increases supplemental unemployment benefits for dependent children for the first time in 30 years. Currently the dependent allowance is just $10 a week. • Increases the eligibility and benefit amount for workers who are partially unemployed. • Removes the disqualification for workers who must leave work for a family emergency, such as a loss of child care, eldercare or transportation. • Repeals interest on non-fraud related overpayments. It only takes a few minutes to fill this form out and tell our elected officials to pass this important bill. Your voice matters!",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-legislators-to-fix-maines-unemployment-system"
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