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Amanda Frank relies on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits to supplement her limited income caring for children with special needs. She expects to need cash assistance if federal unemployment benefits expire, or payments lapse, at the end of December.
As Congress negotiates, Oregonians prepare for a gap in payment or worse.
Getting unemployment benefits was hard for Amanda Frank. The prospect of losing them is too.
She applied for benefits in March when the pandemic dried up her work caring for children with special needs. But as months passed with no payment in sight, she thought of her toddler, swallowed her pride, and got cash assistance for families in need.