Stimulus Package Gig Workers
The pandemic unemployment assistance program which expands jobless benefits to self employed and gig workers along with independent contractors lapses on the same date.
Stimulus package gig workers. Gig workers are eligible for extra unemployment under new stimulus deal but they must clear one big hurdle first last updated. Some recipients will. The new stimulus bill extends two cares act programs that support the self employed freelance gig workers and long term unemployed by 11 weeks.
2 trillion package gives benefits to gig workers independent contractors for companies like uber lyft and instacart are now eligible for unemployment benefits. Here s what the new stimulus package means for americans 03 05. Also includes in the package is a third stimulus.
Someone who was self employed or who worked as a gig worker freelancer. Jan 6 2021 4 53 am pst. Unemployed workers will depend on the 300 weekly checks that most.
11 2021 at 6 11 a m. Gig workers won a landmark protection in the 2 trillion stimulus bill that passed in a unanimous 96 0 vote in the senate wednesday. The bill would allow a gig workers such as uber and lyft.
Under the pandemic unemployment assistance included in the stimulus bill freelancers and gig workers can receive half the average unemployment benefit in their state and an extra 600 per week. The pandemic unemployment assistance program initially expanded jobless benefits to gig workers freelancers independent. Washington has answered the increasingly desperate pleas of gig economy executives by agreeing to include hard up workers among the beneficiaries of the 2tn stimulus bill passed by the senate on.
These programs were originally scheduled to expire.