CARES Act, Take 2: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Extended for Independent Contractors
By EsqSocial Corporation 28/12/20
On December 27, the President signed the next stimulus bill that Congress passed on December 21. The legislation extends unemployment assistance not only for employees but also for independent contractors and other self-employed individuals for 11 weeks. The bill (H.R. 133) includes the “Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020,” which provides for an extension of the CARES Act unemployment provisions from December 31, 2020 until March 14, 2021, including the provisions that had...
By: Locke Lord LLP