Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire

NEW YORK (AP) — Two captious jobless payment programs person expired, leaving lone a fistful of economical options for millions who are inactive financially impacted by the year-and-a-half-old coronavirus pandemic.

One programme provided jobless assistance to self-employed and gig workers and different provided benefits to those who person been unemployed much than six months.

Further the Biden administration's $300 play supplemental unemployment payment besides ran retired connected Monday. Americans inactive financially struggling successful the pandemic volition find a smaller patchwork of societal enactment programs, including nutrient stamps, eviction extortion successful immoderate states and a intermission connected national pupil indebtedness repayments.

But economists accidental nary volition travel adjacent to replacing the wealth mislaid done unemployment benefits.