Self-employed and gig workers may have to wait a little longer than other jobless Americans to get their unemployment benefits.
The $2 trillion law, the CARES Act, pays laid-off and furloughed workers an extra $600 a week for up to four months, and extends existing state benefits by 13 weeks.
These workers are eligible to receive half their state's average weekly unemployment benefit plus $600 a week. There will be lots of states that futz and putz until we figure out what the rules and regulations are.Nearly 3.3 million people filed first-time claims for unemployment last week — shattering the previous record, set in 1982, by around 2.6 million people, according to the Labor Department. Bank of America projects that number to increase even more, to 5.5 million claims, when the agency announces updated figures tomorrow.
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