Unemployment Payments Likely Won’t Lapse Despite Trump Delay in Signing Bill: Labor

Food is loaded as drivers in their vehicles wait in line on arrival at a food distribution hosted by the Los Angeles Food Bank in Hacienda Heights, Calif., on Dec. 4, 2020. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Millions of unemployed Americans will probably not miss benefits, the Department of Labor said Tuesday.

Two key programs, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, lapsed on Saturday after President Donald Trump failed to sign the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that included extensions for the programs.