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US jobless benefit cut-off pushes millions to financial cliff-edge

Emergency unemployment benefits of roughly 14 million ended on Saturday

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The new relief bill would extend through mid-March programs that support self-employed workers and those unemployed for more than half a year.

Simon Lewis | Reuters

3 min read Last Updated : Dec 28 2020 | 1:43 AM IST

When the US Congress passed a pandemic aid Bill on Monday, Meghan Meyer, a single mom from Lincoln, Nebraska, thought she would get some respite from the daily struggle to feed and house her two kids during an unprecedented health and economic crisis.

But the next day President Donald Trump declared the long-awaited relief package "a disgrace" and said he would not sign it into law, decrying some of its spending measures while also demanding it include bigger stimulus checks for most Americans.

By the weekend, he had refused to budge.

That leaves Meyer, who has been on unpaid medical leave from her

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