$300 bonus unemployment checks: How many are left? What you should know? CNET 3/6/2021 © Provided by CNET More federal unemployment checks are still coming. Sarah Tew/CNET
March 14 will be the last day for bonus unemployment checks unless President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan gets through Congress before. It already passed the House of Representatives and is currently in the Senate where the provisions such as a third stimulus check, Child Tax Credit and the eviction moratorium are being debated on.
Friday saw some changes to the extension of unemployment benefits. The House bill called for $400 bonus checks to last until the end of August, however, because the Senate will be adjourned during that period, there was a plan to extend the payments at a lower amount. Instead of $400, the new plan would drop the bonus checks to $300 and have them expire on Sept. 6. This plan has yet to be passed by the Senate and could still change before it s added to the
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After months of trying to include workers who receive both W-2 and 1099 income in COVID-19 unemployment relief, the Congressman discusses the language in the new package and why he wishes it could have been a lot more.
Not long after the CARES Act was signed into law in late March, entertainment industry organizations began decrying the relief package s lack of support for mixed-income earners.
In May, around 45 organizations including SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association and the Writers Guild of America East noted that those who receive both W-2 and 1099 income a not uncommon situation for Hollywood workers, who move from gig to gig were disqualified from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and thereby were losing out on valuable financial aid. By August, SAG-AFTRA, The Recording Academy and 10 other industry organizations told President Trump in a letter that the lack of additional assistance for mixed-income workers was having tragic consequences: Due t