By David Robb Labor Editor Those $600-a-week bonus unemployment payments have started to arrive for entertainment industry workers in California who lost their jobs in the coronavirus shutdown. “I got mine yesterday,” a location manager told Deadline. “I think it will help everyone in the industry because we’re all out of work and nobody knows when it’s going to start up again.” The recent $2 trillion CARES Actnow adds an additional $600 per week to the amount of unemployment insurance benefits recipients ordinarily would get.
In California, anyone entitled to the maximum of $450 a week will receive $1,050 a week for the next four months. Hollywood Industry Unions Laud Congress For Passage Of $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill “I’m
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