Building Resilience Action Area 5: Ensuring Equitable Access to Robust Benefits and Services
This section of the Building Resilience plan outlines strategies to expand access to unemployment insurance (UI) for underserved populations and improve benefit adequacy through system reform, outreach, and data-driven equity efforts.
Action Area 5 focuses on overcoming persistent disparities in UI access that disproportionately affect communities of color, low-income, young, and less-educated workers.
It details completed and ongoing efforts such as equity guidance, overpayment waivers, training, data reporting, UI Navigator pilots, and ARPA-funded Equity Grants. The section also outlines future initiatives, including data partnerships, performance measures for equity, improved income verification for non-standard workers, and legislative proposals to create a more inclusive, adequate, and responsive UI system.
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