Stimulus check 2: How much you'd get with the House's new HEROES Act

Stimulus check 2: How much you'd go with the House's new HEROES Act

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Business firm Democrats unveiled a revised version of their HEROES Act earlier this week. While the new bill would spend significantly less than the original $3.4 trillion parcel passed in May, it does include stimulus cheque 2.

The $2.2 trillion proposal, titled the HEROES Act similar the original version, would ship some other $ane,200 payment to low- and middle-income individuals who qualified for the starting time stimulus bank check. It would also provide an boosted $500 per dependent, regardless of age, including college students and adults with disabilities. (The original HEROES Deed provided $1,200 per dependent.)

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Just like the CARES Act that became police in March, the updated House neb would send $i,200 to individuals who earn less than $75,000 per twelvemonth (if single) or $150,000 per year (if married).

Taxpayers earning upward to $99,000 or $198,000, respectively, would receive a prorated corporeality. Families with dependents are probable to receive more than money with stimulus check ii — the CARES Act express benefits to dependents under 17 years of historic period.

The updated HEROES Act likewise reinstates the $600 weekly federal unemployment-benefit supplement that expired at the terminate of July. CBS News reports that the payments would employ retroactively back to Sept. 6 and would continue through Jan. 31, 2021.

What's next for the stimulus bill?

While the new bill — along with resumed talks between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — represents a footstep forward after nearly ii months without progress, there'due south already been pushback from Republicans in the House and indifference from the Senate GOP.

The White Firm made a counter-offer to the Democrats' revised bill on Wed, which Pelosi has already said does not provide plenty relief to garner House support.

The administration's $1.vi trillion parcel does increase spending slightly (up from the White Business firm's previous $1.five trillion) and also provides a stimulus check ii. All the same, Mnuchin wouldn't guarantee to Fox Business Aqueduct'due south Lou Dobbs that the corporeality would be $1,200 per qualifying individual, only that information technology would be "similar."

Mnuchin's proposal would provide just $400 per week in federal unemployment benefits, dating them back to Sept. 12 and continuing through Jan. 1, 2021. As Roll Phone call reports, that'south less than what Democrats want but nonetheless $100 per week more than Senate Republicans take proposed.

While Pelosi and other Democratic leaders accept previously expressed optimism almost the possibility of consensus, there still seems to be an unbridgeable gap with the White House.

"We're not going to practice a $2.2 trillion deal," Mnuchin said Wednesday night.

Emily Long is a Utah-based freelance writer who covers consumer technology, privacy and personal finance for Tom's Guide. She has been reporting and writing for nearly 10 years, and her work has appeared in Wirecutter, Lifehacker, NBC Better and CN Traveler, amongst others. When she'due south not working, y'all can notice her trail running, teaching and practicing yoga, or studying for grad schoolhouse — all fueled by coffee, obviously.