For those of us unemployed, when will we see the $300/wk unemployment & the $600 (or $2,000) check?

[Johnny2X2X]

17. No, sounds like a lot of people didn't even know they qualified

The PUA was extremely lax, basically anyone who claimed reduced hours or lost wages qualified, anyone!

It was basically no questions asked, even if you couldn't prove income.

$600 is fine for them, but I'd much rather have seen a longer and bigger benefit.

The problem isn't that they're giving $600 to people who really need it, it's that $600 isn't enough, and that they're also giving it to people who do not need it (the majority of Americans do not need it right now.) So the reason why it's just $600 is because they wanted to give it to people like me and my wife, making a combined low 6 figures combined, but we'll still get the full $1200 even though neither of us saw income decline or spending increase due to the pandemic, the opposite is actually true for us.

If they did do a stimulus, I'd have rather it be limited to people who were affected by the pandemic and the working poor. But it wasn't going to be popular enough to pass that way.