Unknown when new unemployment benefits will be set up for PUA, PEUC

Some out-of-work Wisconsinites who are trying to access new unemployment benefits created under the second round of federal coronavirus relief will have to wait an unknown amount of time to receive those benefits, according to the state Department of Workforce Development.

The two programs facing an unknown delay are Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), for those not typically eligible for unemployment like self-employed and contract workers; and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which grants additional weeks of unemployment benefits.