Title: Expanded Unemployment Benefits And $400 Weekly Unemployment Payments May Be Coming In March
Headings: Expanded Unemployment Benefits And $400 Weekly Unemployment Payments May Be Coming In March
Expanded Unemployment Benefits And $400 Weekly Unemployment Payments May Be Coming In March
What unemployment benefits does the bill include?
How likely is passage of the additional unemployment benefits?
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Could federal unemployment benefits be interrupted?
Who qualifies for the additional $400 weekly unemployment benefits?
Who qualifies for the PEUC extended unemployment benefits?
Who qualifies for the PUA extended unemployment benefits?

Content: Who qualifies for the PUA extended unemployment benefits? The CARES Act also created Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, which was designed to provide benefits to freelancers, gig workers, and others who are working on contract and have lost income as a result of the pandemic. This week, the Labor Department issued new guidance expanding eligibility to collect benefits under the program to also include: Those who opted not to return to work, or who turned down work, because the workplace that was not in compliance with coronavirus health and safety standards. Those who were laid off, or who have had their work hours reduced as a direct result of the pandemic. School employees working without a contract or reasonable assurance of continued employment who face reduced paychecks and no assurance of continued pay when schools are closed due to coronavirus. The bill passed by the House would lengthen the duration of the PUA program to up to 74 weeks—nearly a year and a half—from the current 50 weeks. That means someone who began collecting unemployment benefits through the PUA program last spring, and continues to qualify, could continue to do so until the program expires at the end of August. If the stimulus bill is signed into law before mid-March with the current unemployment relief provisions intact, the millions of Americans who are eligible to collect either PUA or PEUC payments should simply continue to receive those benefits. Policymakers have stressed, though, that if the bill isn’t passed quickly by Congress, it might result in some interruptions and delays as states work to set up the additional distributions.