Title: Unemployment benefits: Will Trump's executive orders be challenged?
Headings: 'An administrative nightmare': Trump's executive action is a scramble for unemployment aid
'An administrative nightmare': Trump's executive action is a scramble for unemployment aid
Executive actions face possible legal challenges
How will the funds be distributed?
Some Americans might not qualify
The extra aid could last just weeks
Executive actions could prompt a court fight

Content: State unemployment offices would either have to create a new system to disperse the funds, or other government entities might be called on to assist, including the tax system or human services agencies, he says. “They can’t call it an unemployment benefit under the Stafford Act, but it starts looking and smelling and sounding a lot like an unemployment benefit real quickly," says Dutta-Gupta. " And even more so if it’s administered by the same unemployment agencies. They probably can’t do that if they want it to be upheld.” Some Americans might not qualify
Trump’s measure would allow states to provide up to $400-per-week in expanded benefits, 75% of which would come from the federal government's disaster relief fund. States would have to pay the remaining 25% of the cost. That means the federal contribution will provide only $300, while states will be expected to fund the extra $100, experts say. An unemployment recipient would have to collect at least $100 in weekly benefits to get the additional funds, according to Evermore, making it unclear how many unemployed Americans would actually receive the full $400 benefit. The $300 would partially restore the $600 unemployment benefit that ended in late July. Democrats wanted to extend the full $600 benefit, but Republicans balked, arguing it was a disincentive for some Americans to return to work because they would receive more in unemployment than they earned on the job.