(CNN) Florida will stop paying jobless residents the $300-a-week federal boost to unemployment benefits on June 26, the state's Department of Economic Opportunity said Monday. The announcement brings the number of GOP-led states that are terminating the special pandemic supplement early to 23 -- all citing labor shortages as the reason. A total of 4 million laid-off Americans will forgo roughly $23.3 billion in benefits, according to The Century Foundation. Ron DeSantis, is not ending two other federal unemployment programs that provide benefits for freelancers, the self-employed, independent contractors and certain people affected by the coronavirus pandemic and for those who've run out of their regular state benefits. But 19 states are terminating them along with the extra $300 weekly payments, which will strip roughly 2.1 million out-of-work Americans of all their unemployment compensation.

Source: CNN May 24, 2021 16:30 UTC