Title: Expanded unemployment benefits may bump people from welfare, other aid
Headings: Expanded unemployment benefits could bump people from welfare, other assistance
Expanded unemployment benefits could bump people from welfare, other assistance
Key Points
Expanded unemployment benefits
Medicaid, food stamps and more

Content: The situation has hit lower-income households hardest. Nearly 40% of people with household income below $40,000 lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic, according to a Federal Reserve report published earlier this month. That’s true for just 13% of Americans with income exceeding $100,000. VIDEO
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How unemployment benefits are calculated
Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow. Medicaid, food stamps and more
Social assistance programs differ in terms of how they measure eligibility and aid. Medicaid, for example, examines monthly household income. States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act generally set their income threshold at 138% of the poverty level — $1,436 a month for a single adult and $2,453 for a family of three, for example, Wagner said.