For more than a year, Taboniar depended entirely on boosted unemployment benefits and a network of local foodbanks to feed her family. Starting Monday, an estimated 8.9 million people will lose all unemployment benefits. … For millions of people nothing has changed from a year and a half ago.”For Taboniar, 43, that means her unemployment benefits will completely disappear — even as her work hours vanish again. On Friday, a White House spokesperson said there were no plans to reevaluate the end of the unemployment benefits. Walsh called the delta variant “an asterisk on everything.”The sudden lapse of a crucial element of the pandemic safety net has fueled calls for a re-evaluation of the entire unemployment benefits system.
