The emails from D.C. government accounts ask recipients to text personal identifying information in order to receive additional unemployment payments.

DOES is also resuming the work-search requirement for unemployment insurance at the end of the month.

Hogan said he was ending the $300-a-week additional unemployment benefit as a means to get Marylanders back to work, but a Baltimore judge shot him down.

Congress authorized the benefits, which include an extra $300 per week payment to people who are jobless, until early September. 

The state is cutting the extra $300 per week payment as well as several other programs. It is also reinstating a work search requirement in order to receive unemployment benefits.

The city’s overwhelmed unemployment office continues to experience delays, leaving frustrated workers without income or clear solutions.

D.C. will add up to 200 additional staff members to process claims and direct claimants to unemployment assistance.

The city’s Department of Employment Services is currently awaiting federal guidance.

Thousands of D.C.-area residents have waited weeks or months to receive unemployment benefits –– if they receive them at all.