1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

In June 2021, you ended the $300 weekly federal pandemic unemployment checks for Ohioans, despite state law requiring that the money be accepted until the federal program ended in September 2021. For the second time, a Court has ordered you to take the $900 million in federal funds meant to help unemployed Ohioans during the COVID pandemic and send that money to them. All that is required of you is to send a letter requesting the funding. While the pandemic has ended, this money is still desperately needed by lower-income Ohioans, especially given the funding cuts recently approved at the state and federal levels. Send the letter today and help Ohioans. The Tenth District Court of Appeals agreed with a trial court and sided with 300,000 workers who sued after DeWine ended the $300 weekly federal pandemic unemployment checks in June 2021. Democratic former attorney general Marc Dann filed that suit a month later, saying state law required that money to be accepted till the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program ended in September. Dann first won a ruling from the Tenth District in 2022. "This is the second time that's happened. And so my expectation is that now that the stay is lifted, that the governor will send that letter immediately," Dann said in an interview. “The governor, for whatever reason, is fighting like hell to keep $900 million from flowing into the hands of the poorest Ohioans at a time when they would probably spend all that money on Ohio businesses.