Kudlow also acknowledged that some people may not get the much-improved benefit depending on where they live. “We’re talking about averages here,” he said.
“Our estimates from the Treasury Department in terms of the CARES Act were that states do not have all the money that was allocated to them,” Kudlow said, referring to the sweeping stimulus package passed by Congress in March.
Kudlow said the White House expects states to use what he described as that “significant flood” of previous incentive funding to pay for unemployment benefits. Trump’s action requires states to improve $ 100 from the $ 400 benefit, with the federal government providing the remaining $ 300. Some experts have said that states can not use these funds for this unemployment benefit because it is a new program that is not authorized by Congress.
“We will re-allocate funds from other areas” to pay for the federal portion of the benefit, “Kudlow said, adding,” Based on our estimates, the states will be able to provide the additional $ 100. ”
“We are setting up a process, a mechanism,” Kudlow said of the action. He said the executive measure would establish a process that would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to mark areas over Covid-19 distribution, and within those areas it could apply it more broadly.
“If HHS declares emergencies, then evictions will be stopped,” Kudlow said, noting that people living in federally funded single-family homes will be protected.
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