A Nevada judge said Monday the state unemployment office has to begin paying pandemic relief benefits to out-of-work gig and independent workers who haven’t completely stopped working and were cut off from receiving payments.
Judge Barry Breslow in Reno ruled that Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments should begin next week, said Mark Thierman, an attorney representing nine plaintiffs among a group he said totals nearly 190,000 people. Another hearing is scheduled July 30.
“People are in a whirlpool,” Thierman said. “They’re caught between types of payments — how the state (Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation) coordinates regular unemployment insurance, PUA and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.”
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