Sec. 102. Extension of pandemic unemployment assistance
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Section 2102 of division A of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9021 ) is amended— in subsection (c)— in paragraph (1)(A)(ii), by striking December 31, 2020 and inserting the applicable end date described in section 2107(g)(2) ; and by amending paragraph
(2)to read as follows: The total number of weeks for which a covered individual may receive assistance under this section shall not exceed 65 weeks and such total shall include any week for which the covered individual received regular compensation or extended benefits under any Federal or State law, or pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under section 2107, except that if after March 27, 2020, the extended benefit period or high unemployment period is triggered under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 ( 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) or an emergency benefit period is triggered under section 2107, the 65-week period described in this paragraph shall be extended by— in the case of an extended benefit period or high unemployment period triggered under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, the number of weeks that is equal to the number of weeks of extended benefits available under such Act in the State in which the individual is filing; and in the case of an emergency benefit period triggered under section 2107, the number of weeks that is equal to the additional number of weeks (through augmentation) available under paragraphs (4), (5), and
(6)of section 2107(b) in the State in which the individual is filing. For the purpose of an extension of the 65-week period under subparagraph (A), the following rules shall apply: Section 2107(g)(3) shall apply to any extension of assistance under subparagraph (A). In determining the number of weeks available for a covered individual under an extension described in subparagraph (A)(ii), the Secretary shall apply rules that are the same as the rules described in paragraphs (4), (5), and
(6)of section 2107(b), including with respect to accounts and grandfathering. ; and by adding at the end the following: In the case of Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, the following rules shall apply: For the purposes of subsection (c)(1)(A)(ii) of this section, the Secretary shall determine the total unemployment rate of the territory in a manner similar to the manner under section 2107(g)(2). For the purpose of subsection (c)(2)(B) of this section, the Secretary shall determine the total unemployment rate of the territory in a manner similar to the manner under paragraphs (4), (5), and
(6)of section 2107(b). . In the case of an individual who is eligible to receive pandemic unemployment assistance under section 2102 of division A of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9021 ) as of the day before the date of enactment of this Act and on the date of enactment of this Act becomes eligible for pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under section 2107 of division A of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9025 ) by reason of the amendments made by section 103(b) of this Act, any payment of pandemic unemployment assistance under section such 2102 made after the date of enactment of this Act to such individual during an appropriate period of time, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, that should have been made under such section 2107 shall not be considered to be an overpayment of assistance under such section 2102.
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