It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that

Walla New York.

I want you to learn ideas to me so that you can keep more of what you have.

And this is so typical of the way Washington works.

We have the special federal supplemental coronavirus unemployment compensation coming to an end

in a week.

And just today, the Politicos are starting to try to figure out if they're going to offer

any kind of replacement, what it'll be, how it will work and all the rest, very, very

last minute.

And I think part of it is that political leaders and elected officials live in a bubble.

You know, they don't live in the world of hardship that so many of our fellow Americans do.

And so it doesn't seem pressing to them.

People have been trying to hold it together with rubber bands who have lost their jobs,

who may have been rehired and outlawed off again.

And it's been a really rough go for many tens of millions of Americans.

I think there's about 25 million people that have been heavily dependent on the special

coronavirus unemployment compensation.

It's pretty clear that as the Congress figures out what it's going to do, there's zero

chance that there will be $600 weekly federal supplement going forward that there's been

in the past.

If I were to take a bet and this is as a complete outsider, I think they'll end up about

$250 to $300 per week as an extension as a federal overlay on top of state unemployment.

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