Friend,
Coronavirus cases and unemployment numbers are climbing, but the Senate went home without debating the HEROES Act, which would extend expanded unemployment benefits including the extra $600 per week in benefits through January 2021.
The House passed the HEROES Act on May 15. Yet for two months, the Senate has not brought this critical legislation to the floor, nor has it proposed an alternative solution. The extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits will run out at the end of this month for millions of working people who are unemployed through no fault of their own—unless the Senate gets back to work.
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Click here to tell the Senate to support critical pieces of the HEROES Act in the next COVID 19 relief bill including:
- Extending Pandemic Unemployment Compensation which provides an additional $600 per week that unemployed workers have been receiving since the CARES Act passed in March.
- Preserving healthcare benefits by passing a 100% COBRA premium subsidy for families who have lost access to their employee-based insurance.
- Safeguarding renters and homeowners from evictions and foreclosures.
- Protecting the pensions we have earned by allowing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to provide partition assistance to struggling multiemployer plans.
- Increasing funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Tell your Senators to extend unemployment benefits for musicians and other working people.
In Unity,
Ray Hair
AFM International President
