Addiego Calls for the Use of Federal Funds to Prevent Unemployment Insurance Tax Increase

Trenton – Senator Dawn Addiego issued the following statement calling on Governor Murphy to utilize New Jersey’s federal relief funding to cover the $250 million unemployment insurance tax increase announced by the state Department of Labor last week:

“The business community has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. With added uncertainty around what the fall will bring, business owners should not have to worry about an increase to their unemployment insurance on top of everything else. We must do all that we can to assist our small businesses and prevent any more storefronts from closing their doors for good. We have plenty of federal dollars to go around, and there is no reason businesses should be burdened with an unemployment tax hike when laying off employees was the only way they could stay afloat through last year’s shutdown.”