Title: 4 Ways the CARES Act Improves Unemployment Benefits | The Motley Fool
Headings: 4 Ways the CARES Act Improves Unemployment Benefits
4 Ways the CARES Act Improves Unemployment Benefits
Expanded unemployment benefits may help you hang on financially until this crisis ends.
1. More people qualify
2. Benefits will last longer
3. Checks will be higher
4. Waiting periods may be waived
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Content: 4 Ways the CARES Act Improves Unemployment Benefits | The Motley Fool
4 Ways the CARES Act Improves Unemployment Benefits
Expanded unemployment benefits may help you hang on financially until this crisis ends. Catherine Brock
(TMFCatherineJB)
Apr 27, 2020 at 10:47AM
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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion package of benefits intended to soften the blow of a shuttered economy for millions of Americans. The package provides for stimulus payments, student loan deferrals, and -- maybe most importantly -- an expansion of state unemployment benefits. Since the coronavirus outbreak began in the U.S., more than 26 million workers have lost their jobs. By some estimates, the unemployment rate could rise above 20% before the economy rights itself. That would rival Depression-era levels, and would be more than double the 9.9% unemployment rate of 2009 during the Great Recession. Image Source: