(Providence, RI)--The state of Rhode Island plans to distribute a new round of supplemental federal unemployment benefits on September 12th.The Lost Wages Assistance Program was funded by FEMA after an executive order from President Trump to replace a previous federal coronavirus unemployment helper.The Department of Labor and Training says Rhode Islanders on any amount of unemployment for the last week of July and the first two weeks of August will receive a nine-hundred-dollar payment.The state says FEMA has provided it with enough funds to cover just those three weeks at this point.
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