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POLL: Most Unemployed New Jerseyans Have Received Benefits -- Have You? POLL: Most Unemployed New Jerseyans Have Received Benefits -- Have You?
Poll: Most Unemployed New Jerseyans Have Received Benefits -- Have You? Approximately 94 percent of the state's unemployed citizens have received benefits, Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday. Have you? Story continues below poll. New Jersey has surpassed another grim milestone during the coronavirus outbreak, state officials said. More than 1 million residents have applied for unemployment benefits between March 15 and June 6, receiving 6.2 billion in jobless payments -- the largest volume in the state's history. All 70,000 residents who have exhausted their state benefits have qualified for federal pandemic emergency jobless payments, he said. "It's by far the l…

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