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About PUA:
Artists who experienced unemployment and loss of income due to the pandemic could have applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). PUA provided an additional $300 per week of federal assistance on top of the state unemployment amount and is eligible to all out-of-work W2, 1099 and self-employed individuals. This program was extended through Labor Day, September 6, 2021.
The CARES Act gives states the option of extending unemployment compensation to independent contractors and other workers who are ordinarily ineligible for unemployment benefits. Please contact your state’s unemployment insurance office at the website or phone number provided to learn more about the availability of these benefits where you live.
PUA Updates Archive
- 3/23/21 IRS Guidance: Exclusion of up to $10,200 per tax filer of unemployment compensation in 2020 and 2021
- 3/15/21 American Rescue Plan Update
- 3/10/21 Press Release Congress Passes the American Rescue Plan
- 3/7/21 SVOG and American Rescue Plan Bill Update
- 2/19/21 SVOG Update
- 2/19/21 Draft of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 Relief Reconciliation Bill
- 2/11/21 COVID-19 Update
- 1/15/21 AAF Webinar: New PPP First & Second Draw Loans, EIDL, PUA
- Learn How to Tap the New COVID-19 Economic Relief Funds for the Arts Slide Deck (Updated 1/21/21)
- BHFS Sarah Mercer Slide Deck (Updated 1/21/21)
- 1/14/21 Biden American Rescue Plan
- 1/12/21 COVID-19 Update
- 1/8/21 COVID-19 Update
- 12/22/20 Congress Passes Omnibus, COVID-19 Relief by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
- 12/22/20 COVID-19 Update
- 12/20/20 COVID-19 Update
- 12/9/20 Highlights of the Proposed Bipartisan Senate COVID-19 Relief Bill
- 9/30/20 COVID-19 Update
- 9/10/20 States Approved by FEMA to Pay Extra $300 Unemployment Compensation
- 7/31/20 Comparing Proposed Relief Legislation by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
- 7/28/20 COVID-19 Update
- 7/6/20 COVID-19 Update
- 6/29/20 COVID-19 Update
- 5/15/20 COVID-19 Update
- 4/23/20 COVID-19 Update
- 3/26/20 COVID-19 Update
- 3/23/20 COVID-19 Update