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Checks To End For Half Of NH Unemployment Recipients

Checks To End For Half Of NH Unemployment Recipients

Much has been made of the fact that unemployment compensation checks will be reduced by $300 per week in New Hampshire on June 19 because Gov. Chris Sununu is joining other Republican governors in opting out of a federal pandemic aid program.

But what might not be so well known is that about 15,000 people -- nearly half of those receiving unemployment in the state -- will lose all unemployment benefits as of that day because the governor is also taking the state out of other federal programs that expand and extend unemployment benefits.

Business Leaders Fear Extended Unemployment Could Exacerbate State Labor Shortage.

Business Leaders Fear Extended Unemployment Could Exacerbate State Labor Shortage.

There has been strong tourist trade in the 1,600-person White Mountains town, near Loon Mountain Resort and not far from Cannon Mountain, Waterville Valley Resort and other attractions. Lincoln has approved plans for four new hotels and building permits for 20 new houses.

The only potential bump in the road, as Burbank sees it, is a shortage of workers to wait tables, tend bar and clean rooms. He wonders whether federal supplemental unemployment benefits dissuade people from joining the workforce.

Tradeswomen Want To See More Females In Construction

Tradeswomen Want To See More Females In Construction

The economic impact of coronavirus has been centered on industries that employ a disproportionate number of women. More women than men have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, with 11.5 million women newly unemployed between February and May compared to 9 million men, according to data from Pew Research Center. That’s different from the 2008 recession, when men were twice as likely to lose their jobs. Hispanic women have been especially hard hit this year, seeing a 21% reduction in employment between February and May.

(When she walks onto a job site, Krista McCullough says she has three disadvantages: she’s young, female, and working in safety. Courtesy photo, Krista McCullough.)

Pregnant mom of 3 still waiting for unemployment check

By Paul Briand
Seacoast Media Group

Jen Montgomery, a pregnant mother of three who lives in Dover, says she’s been unemployed since March 23 from her bartending job in Portsmouth. As of Thursday, May 7, she said, she has not received an unemployment check. Courtesy photo.

Jen Montgomery, a pregnant mother of three who lives in Dover, says she’s been unemployed since March 23 from her bartending job in Portsmouth. As of Thursday, May 7, she said, she has not received an unemployment check. Courtesy photo.

Jen Montgomery, a mother living in Dover, said she has been unemployed since March 23 from her job as a bartender at the Elks Club in Portsmouth because of the coronavirus pandemic. She began filing for unemployment with New Hampshire Employment Security right away.

As of Thursday, May 7, she had not received a single payment, she said.

“I’ve been applying for unemployment since then and it said pending,” she said in an email to Seacoast Media Group. “I’ve called the unemployment office five times and they say the state is looking into my wages. Then Monday this week I was denied again, so for the last seven weeks I’ve had no income, still no stimulus check. I have three kids and I’m pregnant with my fourth. How long is this going to keep happening? I was told again by unemployment to file a new claim again this week and see where it goes, and I explained to them that the system is not fair and I literally have nothing.”