On Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo directed the State Department of Labor to immediately make $600 in additional weekly unemployment benefits available to all New Yorkers.

The additional benefits were included in the Federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) Act, but, unlike other states, New York began delivering the extra unemployment insurance to unemployed people before federal funds were disbursed to the states.

New York is also extending the period covered by unemployment benefits for another 13 weeks, for a total of 39 weeks.

Cuomo is also issuing an executive order to ensure New Yorkers can vote by absentee ballot in the June 23 primary elections. He had already issued an order to move the presidential primary election from April 28 to June 23, aligning it with the congressional and legislative primaries in New York.

Further, Cuomo announced that Delta, JetBlue, and United are offering free travel to New York for COVID-19 medical workers. To date, more than 90,000 health professionals — more than 25,000 of them from out of state — have signed up to serve as part of the state’s surge health-care force during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.