Unemployment compensation funding fix bill on track for Senate vote this week
Legislation to provide four additional years of state funding to help underwrite the cost of operating the state's unemployment compensation system and modernize its technology is moving toward full Senate consideration this week.
The Senate Labor & Industry Committee on Monday voted 8-3 to approve a bill the House passed last week that provides $115.2 million to the state Department of Labor & Industry's Service and Infrastructure Improvement Fund through 2021.
After that point, the bill's intention is to dissolve that fund and force the department to operate the UC system strictly on the federal funding it receives for that purpose.
The funding for this legislation would come from diverting a portion of the money that Pennsylvania businesses and workers pay into the state's Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund, which is supposed to be used to fund jobless benefits.
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