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December 17, 2020
OESC to pay out additional Lost Wages Assistance payments
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) announced today that it will use remaining federal funding for unemployment assistance through FEMA to create the Additional Lost Wages Assistance (ALWA) program to provide a one-time $400 payment to approximately 120,000 eligible claimants on top of claimants? weekly benefits. The payments will be distributed Dec. 16-21.