Child Actors Who Lost Jobs To COVID-19 Shutdown Can Collect Enhanced Unemployment Benefits
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deadline.comBy David Robb Labor Editor Child actors and background performers – even show business babies – are eligible to receive enhanced unemployment benefits if their shows were shuttered or canceled because of the coronavirus shutdown, a spokesperson for the state’s Employment Development Department told Deadline on Thursday.
In California, they can receive as much as much as $1,050 a week. The entertainment and modeling industries are the only businesses in America in which toddlers can be legally employed. “Per California Unemployment Insurance Code section 1340, there is no age cutoff to receive UI benefits,” the EDD spokesperson said.
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