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Fairfax County calls for increase to unemployment benefits for fired federal workers

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Fairfax County supervisors say Virginia unemployment payouts are behind D.C. and Maryland ’s.

In Virginia , unemployment benefits are capped at $ 378 /week.

Virginia General Assembly recently approved a measure that would have increased everyone’s unemployment benefits by $ 100 /week. The governor sent the bill back, amending it to a proposed $ 52 /week increase.

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