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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
On The Record
Those awaiting injunction could receive unemployment in meantime
The Oregon Employ-
ment Department an-
nounced Monday that it
has found a way to pay
benefits to thousands
of Oregonians who
are out of work due to
COVID-19 while they
wait for their claim, or
“Benefits While You
Wait.”
This applies to Orego-
nians who are waiting
for their claim to be re-
viewed by an adjudica-
tor to determine wheth-
er they are eligible for
regular unemployment
or the Pandemic Un-
employment Assistance
(PUA) program.
“We are confident this
group of Oregonians are
eligible for benefits be-
cause they lost their job
due to COVID-19, we
just don’t know which
program they are eli-
gible for yet,” said Em-
ployment Department
Acting Director David
Gerstenfeld. “We have
found a workaround
that will allow us to
pay benefits while their
claims are being re-
viewed by an adjudica-
tor.
“We are grateful we
have figured out a way
to do this because Ore-
gonians have been wait-
ing too long.”
The Employment De-
partment is proactively
notifying claimants who
have been identified to
fall into this group via
email and robo calls.
Strict laws governing
unemployment insur-
ance to prevent fraud
and provide people due
process require that
each claim be reviewed.
The Employment De-
partment estimates that
tens of thousands of Or-
egonians whose claims
are in adjudication may
be eligible for PUA if
they are not eligible for
regular unemployment.
This pool of Orego-
nians could begin re-
ceiving “Benefits While
You Wait.”
The department will
contact people who may
be able to receive “Ben-
efits While You Wait”
over the next several
weeks.
Oregonians who may
be eligible for “Benefits
While You Wait”:
1. Applied for regular
unemployment benefits;
2. Had their claim
flagged for adjudica-
tion because the Em-
ployment Department
has to determine if they
meet the legal require-
ments to get regular un-
employment benefits;
3. They are out of work
due to a COVID-19
qualifying reason (see
full list below); AND
4.Are likely eligible
for PUA if they cannot
receive regular unem-
ployment benefits.
For now, people
should continue filing
their weekly claims as
they have been. The
Employment Depart-
ment will notify people
who may be able to ben-
efit from this approach.
The
administrative
workaround will work
as follows:
• As long as claimants
qualify for PUA and file
weekly regular unem-
ployment claims, the
Employment Depart-
ment will pay these Or-
egonians their regular
unemployment benefit
amount until their claim
is adjudicated. If, at the
end of the adjudication
process, it turns out
that they qualified for
regular unemployment
benefits, nothing will
change.
They will keep getting
regular unemployment
benefits as long as they
file their weekly claims
and are eligible.
• If it turns out they
didn’t qualify for reg-
ular
unemployment,
then the Employment
Department will move
their claims into the
PUA program. If their
PUA weekly benefit
amount is higher, the
Employment Depart-
ment will also send
them the increase for all
the past weeks they got
the regular UI amount.
• In the unlikely event
this results in overpay-
ment, the person would
have to pay it back.
“Benefits While You
Wait” is not available to
individuals having their
claims reviewed because
of past or current school
work experience, people
who need to prove they
are legally authorized to
work in the U.S., claim-
ants who reported being
out of their labor market
at least 3.5 days during a
week, and some other
situations.
COVID-19 reasons a
person may be eligible
for PUA:
• They have been diag-
nosed with COVID-19
or they have symptoms
of COVID-19 and are
seeking a medical diag-
nosis.
• A member of
their household has
been diagnosed with
COVID-19.
• They are caring for
a family member or a
member of their house-
hold who has been diag-
nosed with COVID-19.
• Their child can’t
go to school because
their school is closed
as a direct result of
the COVID-19 public
health emergency, and
they need their child to
be in school for them to
work.
• A person in their
household for whom
they have primary care-
giving
responsibility
can’t go to a facility for
care because the facility
is closed as a direct re-
sult of the COVID-19
public health emergen-
cy, and they need them
to be in facility care for
them to work.
• They can’t get to
their workplace because
of a quarantine im-
posed as a direct result
of the COVID-19 public
health emergency.
• They can’t get to
their workplace because
a health care provid-
er has advised them
to self-quarantine due
to concerns related to
COVID-19.
• They were sched-
uled to start a job but
they can’t start it or can’t
get to it as a direct result
of the COVID-19 public
health emergency.
• They have become
the main income earn-
er for their household
because the head of
their household died
as a direct result of
COVID-19.
• They had to quit
their job as a direct re-
sult of COVID-19.
• Their workplace is
closed as a direct result
of the COVID-19 public
health emergency.
For more informa-
tion, visit www.oregon.
gov/employ/unemploy-
ment.
DEATH NOTICES
VESPOLI —Joseph
James Vespoli, 64, of
Drain, died July 25, 2020.
Arrangements
by
Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral
Chapel, Cottage Grove.
MILLER—Johnathon
ARREST
On Aug. 3, 44-year-old the First Degree, one count
Boudie Lancaster of Cot- of Assault in the Second
tage Grove was arrested Degree, and one count of
and
lodged
Felon in Posses-
at the Lane
sion of a Weapon.
County
Jail
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State
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of London
the
Eugene
Lancaster
Rd., south
Police Depart-
of Cottage
ment, South
Grove.
Lane Fire, and Life Flight
Lancaster is being held for their assistance in this
on two counts of Assault in case.
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Public charge rule blocked amid COVID-19 pandemic
A judge issued new
injunctions this week
blocking the pub-
lic charge immigra-
tion rule during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
This will allow im-
migrant communities
across Oregon and the
rest of the country to
access critical health
care and public bene-
fits during the current
health crisis.
The injunction issued
against the Department
of Homeland Securi-
ty prevents the agency
from enforcing, apply-
ing, implementing or
treating as effective the
“public charge” rule for
any period during a de-
clared national health
emergency in response
to the COVID-19 out-
break.
The rule had expand-
ed the list of benefits
that the federal gov-
ernment could consid-
er in deciding whether
a person can enter the
United States or obtain
lawful permanent resi-
dency.
“The public charge
rule has worsened
health disparities, es-
pecially for the Lati-
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1, 2020.
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