Nearly one in five Americans has been left unemployed amid the pandemic.
A lingering and indisputably important question enters every potential claimant's mind after applying: When will I receive my benefits?
Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, added that this number is steadily on the rise -- indicating that most eligible applicants should start to see their benefits in the coming weeks. "There are people who are out of work for up to two months before they get their unemployment insurance benefits -- that's if they could even get through to the system," said Evermore, referring to applicants' respective state unemployment system."We live in an economy where a lot of people are paycheck to paycheck.
"We're seeing these big lines at food pantries and I think part of that is because people don't have access to unemployment benefits to meet their basic needs," Stettner told ABC News."That's what unemployment benefits are best at doing, to meet those basic needs -- your food, your rent, your car payments -- to keep you in place until things turn around or you find another job.
Kegan's home state of Florida has struggled to meet unemployment demands since the start of the pandemic. Florida has paid approximately 58% of the total 1.68 million verified unemployment applications the state has received."I don't think there's any states that have had an easy time with this," said Stettner, listing the issues state labor departments face, such as out-of-date technology and managing too few employees while attempting to process a large influx of claims.
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