Self-employed and gig employees could have to attend slightly longer than different jobless People to get their unemployment advantages.

The brand new coronavirus aid legislation considerably expanded the monetary help it provides to out-of-work People, partly by increasing pay to teams of employees who have been beforehand ineligible.

However the claims-filing course of for these teams has been mired in delays and confusion as states attempt to construct out their administrative programs, based on specialists.

And it comes at an inopportune time, as jobless People apply for unemployment advantages in document numbers and stress state unemployment programs.

The query of how gig and self-employed employees can apply for and obtain advantages might be the most important reason for confusion among the many new legislation's unemployment measures, mentioned Arindrajit Dube, an economics professor on the College of Massachusetts Amherst.

"That is the place the place there's slightly uncertainty nonetheless," he mentioned. "My guess is inside every week or in order that'll...