jobless benefits

The cancellation will affect as many as 20,000 long-term unemployed. Even if you have qualified for the EB program, and a balance remains on that claim, no more payments will be sent out after April 9.

As many as 250,000 New Jersey residents who received pandemic unemployment benefits could be deemed ineligible and ordered to pay the money back.

Since last March, more than 2.1 million residents have filed for unemployment benefits. More than 266,000 are considered long-term unemployed, meaning they have been collecting for more than a year.