Out-of-work Hoosiers will get a raise in a few weeks. Indiana has signed up for the 300-dollar-a-week add-on to unemployment benefits authorized by President Trump after Congress let a larger add-on expire. That’ll double the weekly check of Indiana’s average recipient. But the state has decided against pushing the extra benefit to 400 dollars, even though Trump’s executive order would have allowed states to cover the extra hundred with federal CARES Act assistance. Department of Workforce Development commissioner Fred Payne says fewer than 10 states have signed up for the program so far, and none of them are paying the state-funded extra hundred, though some are still considering it.
