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12 million Americans could lose crucial unemployment benefits just after Christmas - CNN

12 million Americans could lose crucial unemployment benefits just after Christmas - CNN

12 million Americans could lose crucial unemployment benefits just after Christmas - CNN
Nov 21, 2020 1 min, 31 secs

The program is also available to certain people affected by the coronavirus, including those who are ill or quarantined or have families members who are and those whose children's schools have closed.

A second measure, the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, is also due to expire.

Some 4.6 million recipients will see these extra payments expire prematurely unless Congress acts, The Century Foundation estimated -- and many of those people won't be eligible for extended state benefits, which can last up to 20 weeks.

March shutdowns have an enduring effect

The ranks of long-term unemployed has been rising steadily as a growing number of people find themselves unable to land jobs more than six months after they were let go in the record-breaking wave of joblessness that accompanied the onset of the pandemic in March and April.

They now account for a third of the unemployed, up from less than one-fifth a month earlier.

"We've never cut off unemployment benefits when this many people are collecting, when the unemployment rate is this high, this early in a recession," said Andrew Stettner, senior fellow at The Century Foundation.

Congress, however, has been unable to agree on another stimulus package to extend many of the relief measures it passed in March.

She's concerned the state extended benefits she will then receive will also run out next year before she's able to find work.

"Every time Congress tries to do something, it breaks down because they can't get over their differences," said Caballero, 45, who lives with her mother and sister in a suburb of Houston.

All of those industries have shriveled up in the pandemic.

While the 39-year-old expects to shift from the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program to extended benefits next month, she doesn't think she'll be able to find another job before those payments run out in March.

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