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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExtra unemployment benefits cannot restart for at least several weeks, experts warn
The Senate adjourned on Thursday evening without Republicans and Democrats reaching a deal on the next stimulus package amid the coronavirus pandemic, meaning the extra $600 in unemployment benefits expired after Friday.
And regardless of whether Congress agrees to resume the extra $600 per week or decreases the amount to $200 as some Republicans propose experts say that roughly 30 million jobless Americans collecting benefits will not receive any extra stimulus for several weeks.
It's going to take maybe three to four weeks to ramp it back up again after any deal, Gbenga Ajilore, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress, a non-profit for public policy research and advocacy, told Yahoo Money.
To simply restart the extra $600 now that theyve expired would take up to five weeks, according to an estimate by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) provided to Yahoo Money by The Committee on Ways and Means.
https://money.yahoo.com/coronavirus-stimulus-extra-unemployment-benefits-155100583.html
crickets
(25,949 posts)Mitch and his band of Senate sociopaths have a lot to answer for.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Look at the graphic in that article and notice the states where they will have the biggest hit, (due to the low wages and benefits they already had, I presume).
They be lovin' them fork tounged Republicans and seem to overlook being rooked.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)brush
(53,726 posts)and it can't be restarted for weeks. They shoot themselves in the foot over and over againfrom this to restarting the economy too soon to not wearing masks to being late on testing and no tracing to the upcoming reopening of schools, which will be another debacle.
That party should be banned from ever participating in government again.