Workers who applied for jobless benefits a year or more ago might requalify once federal aid ends in September. Many who do will likely get a lesser amount.
However, recipients who haven't found a job or have worked few hours since the start of the pandemic may be out of luck. Little earnings will likely mean a much lower — if any — benefit.for these long-term unemployed, even if their "benefit year" elapsed.
Roughly 4.7 million people — a third of all recipients — were collecting benefits through the program as of June 26, according to Labor Department data. "Maybe there could be several hundred thousand, maybe 1 million at the high end [who'd qualify for benefits again]," said Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow and unemployment expert at The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank.
The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program has been available to workers since the beginning of the pandemic.
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