Title: Unemployment benefit updates in the American Rescue Plan stimulus
Headings: Biden signs $1.9 trillion stimulus package—here’s what it includes for unemployment
Biden signs $1.9 trillion stimulus package—here’s what it includes for unemployment
Tradeoffs: $300 per week boost and $10,200 tax waiver
Labor Day cutoff
It may be too late to prevent a delay in benefits for some families

Content: We could put in automatic stabilizers so Congress wouldn’t have to continually revisit these things. But we don’t do that.” Even if workers experience a lapse in their payments, they’ll still be entitled to their benefits from the time the bill is signed and can expect to receive their aid retroactively. That does little to help cash-strapped households stay on top of recurring bills and essential expenses, Shierholz says: “ They just face extreme problems when benefits are allowed to expire.” Will the latest extensions of unemployment insurance impact your budget? We’d like to hear from you. Email work reporter Jennifer Liu at jennifer.liu@nbcuni.com. Check out: Latest unemployment boost is ‘too little, too late,’ workers say: ‘