Hello everyone,
Lost Wages ended up being the top story last month on the Delaware Business Now. I’m not talking about the term used to describe Las Vegas. Lost Wages is one of the job payment benefits coming out of the battle against coronavirus.
The $300 a week benefit was part of a presidential executive order that called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to administer the program.
Unlike the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, the state appears to be able to handle the program through its current system, although it takes time for payments to go through and potential fraud is always an issue. Funds remain limited.
Work is underway on a second pandemic assistance package as Cares Act money evaporates. The outcome of talks with legislative leaders and the Trump Administration remains in doubt.
Two of the top six stories involved a Hispanic-focused rodeo-concert event in Bridgeville that drew a large crowd as well as hefty state fines for the organizers.
No coronavirus outbreaks were linked to the event, although the state continued to see a rising tide of cases during September that kept Delaware on the quarantine list of states with population centers in the New York metro area.
Those states are also seeing a rising number of cases as college campuses open and big parties persist.
Rounding out the list was news of vinyl fence plant in Dover, election results, and a New Castle area hotel headed to an online auction.
- $300 a week Lost Wages benefit coming to jobless Delawareans
- Organizers of rodeo festival face $21,000 in fines and liquor-related charges
- Bridgeville ‘rodeo’ party under investigation
- Sheraton South hotel heading to the auction block
- National Vinyl opens fencing plant in Dover
- Complete Delaware election results…
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