Enhanced Unemployment Benefits in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – AAF – American Action Forum

Executive Summary

Included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act—the third emergency response package to deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic—are a series of provisions to strengthen and extend unemployment benefits.

The three most significant provisions are:

Section 2104, which provides an emergency increase in traditional unemployment insurance (UI) benefits of $600 per week through June 30, 2020, fully funded by the federal government; Section 2102, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which provides up to 39 weeks of UI to people not otherwise eligible for regular unemployment compensation (including the self-employed and those who have exhausted their regular benefits); and Section 2107, which creates the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program to provide 13 weeks of emergency UI for people

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