Extended unemployment benefits: when would payments start?

Tthe decision of federal unemployment programs As its end affected more than 9.3 million people, many people across the United States are currently struggling to pay their rent or mortgages, while there is currently uncertainty caused by the Delta variant of COVID-19.

There have been stronger calls for Congress come to the rescue of these people, who have now lost the financial support the US government was providing them. In addition, the Ministry of Labour reported just before the end of the federal unemployment programs that the United States had experienced its weakest job growth in recent months.

Help potentially on the way

Some progressives Democrats, including Representatives Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are trying to pass a new bill that would restore federal benefits and include backdated payments.

This comes after the likes of Ocasio-Cortez representative and others had tried to propose legislation to extend the federal unemployment programs, but eventually they were encouraged to stop their efforts.

The picture is grim if the predictions are to come true, as Goldman Sachs predicts that more than 700,000 households could be evicted this year, while the Washington Post reports that many senior officials from Joe bidenThe US government warned him that “the cliff of benefits poses grave danger to millions of Americans who remain unemployed.”

However, the federal government pushed to shift the responsibility onto state governments, using funds from the American rescue plan do this. The problem is, many states have already decided that the trillion dollar stimulus funds will go to other areas.

Calls for a new bill

Ocasio-Cortez representative said in a town hall that the new bill would allow citizens to access the benefits of the federal unemployment programs until February 2022, while also allowing eligible citizens to claim backdated payments from September 6.

Will the bill pass?

Federal data on the end of federal unemployment programs will not be available until late October or early November, which is already too late for many Americans now on the verge of falling into poverty.