Based on my understanding of how the bill works, even if it's signed, say, Sunday, there will be permanent consequences for those on PEUC. It's complicated... (1/?)
https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1342849307553234947
PEUC is an extended benefit program for people who have run out of standard unemployment benefits. States also have extended benefit programs of various lengths.
If you're unemployed and you run out of standard benefits, as long as PEUC exists you would go to that for 13 weeks. Then after that you'd go to your state extended benefit program.
If PEUC expires, everyone on it would go to their standard benefit program, if they are still eligible for it.
As I understand it, the way the bill works is, if you are on your state extended benefit program, you would have to exhaust that before going back on PEUC. But the bill also sets a date certain for the PEUC extension, 11 weeks from today.
In other words, by the time you exhaust the state extended benefit program, PEUC might be expired again, in mid-March. And you'd get no benefit from the extension of PEUC, because you were locked into another program.
This is but one of the myriad of consequences stemming from Trump's 11th-hour resistance to signing the bill, and Republican resistance to agree to the terms of increasing the stimulus checks to $2,000.
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