Unemployed Ohioans who were hoping lawsuits would bring back $300 weekly checks that were discontinued this summer will have a bit longer to wait for a resolution to those cases.
Gov. Mike DeWine stopped taking federal money for the program in June, saying the checks were keeping people from returning to work. Former Attorney General Marc Dann filed lawsuits on behalf of about 200,000 unemployed Ohioans. A Franklin County judge has stayed all cases till the Ohio Supreme Court weighs in, which Dann says means nothing will happen till then.
“One way or the other, the Supreme Court is going to rule, and I think we have very strong legal arguments here. So I'm confident that they will either not take the case or if they take it that they'll agree with us that the governor had no authority to refuse this money.”
26 states, most of them Republican, ended those checks before the federal program stopped on Labor Day. Dann’s lawsuits seek to restore about $900 million, which is about $3000 per person.
