Governor McMaster has set a date for South Carolina to stop participating in federal unemployment benefit programs related to the pandemic.
As of June 30th, South Carolina will no longer offer Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation, Emergency Unemployment Relief for Governmental Entities and Nonprofit Organizations, or Temporary Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week.
McMaster says the supplemental unemployment payments are causing the state's labor shortage. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce says there are over 81-thousand open positions in the state.