Jobless Benefits Won’t Lapse After Delay, Labor Department Says
- Trump signed relief bill after unemployment benefits expired
- New law extends $300-a-week benefit for jobless into March
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Unemployed people claiming federal benefits won’t see a one-week gap in their payments, despite the delay in President Donald Trump signing the program extension into law, according to the Department of Labor.
States are implementing the provisions as quickly as possible, and the Labor Department doesn’t anticipate that claimants will miss a week of benefits due to the timing of the new law’s enactment, a spokesman for the Department said in a statement Tuesday.