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No, this is federal. It does not vary by state. It's in addition to your state benefits. My state is waiving the requirement for job searches and requirement to file in person due to COVID here: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_98179---,00.html (click on fact sheet for reference) Page 1 reads: Register for work and work search are not required at this time.

The $600 is from the Cares Act that can be read many places, including here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/text

24 (b) ASSISTANCE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AS A RESULT
25 OF COVID-19.—Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary
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1 shall provide to any covered individual unemployment ben2
efit assistance while such individual is unemployed, par3
tially unemployed, or unable to work for the weeks of such
4 unemployment with respect to which the individual is not
5 entitled to any other unemployment compensation (as that
6 term is defined in section 85(b) of title 26, United States
7 Code) or waiting period credit.
8 (c) APPLICABILITY.—
9 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para10
graph (2), the assistance authorized under sub11
section (b) shall be available to a covered indi12
vidual—
13 (A) for weeks of unemployment, partial un14
employment, or inability to work caused by
15 COVID–19—
16 (i) beginning on or after January 27,
17 2020; and
18 (ii) ending on or before December 31,
19 2020; and
20 (B) subject to subparagraph (A)(ii), as
21 long as the covered individual’s unemployment,
22 partial unemployment, or inability to work
23 caused by COVID–19 continues.
24 (2) LIMITATION ON DURATION OF ASSIST25
ANCE.—The total number of weeks for which a cov90
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1 ered individual may receive assistance under this
2 section shall not exceed 39 weeks and such total
3 shall include any week for which the covered indi4
vidual received regular compensation or extended
5 benefits under any Federal or State law, except that
6 if after the date of enactment of this Act, the dura7
tion of extended benefits is extended, the 39-week
8 period described in this paragraph shall be extended
9 by the number of weeks that is equal to the number
10 of weeks by which the extended benefits were ex11
tended.

(1) FEDERAL PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT COM6
PENSATION.—Any agreement under this section
7 shall provide that the State agency of the State will
8 make payments of regular compensation to individ9
uals in amounts and to the extent that they would
10 be determined if the State law of the State were ap11
plied, with respect to any week for which the indi12
vidual is (disregarding this section) otherwise enti13
tled under the State law to receive regular com14
pensation, as if such State law had been modified in
15 a manner such that the amount of regular com16
pensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable
17 for any week shall be equal to—
18 (A) the amount determined under the
19 State law (before the application of this para20
graph), plus
21 (B) an additional amount of $600 (in this
22 section referred to as ‘‘Federal Pandemic Un23
employment Compensation’’).

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