Most unemployed workers will get up to $1,800 in extra jobless benefits through the Lost Wages Assistance program created last month by the Trump administration.

The program pays a $300-a-week federal subsidy on top of the unemployment benefits workers currently receive. It follows the lapse of a $600 weekly supplement in late July.

States, which had to apply and be approved for the Lost Wages aid, will issue up to six weeks of payments to eligible workers, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is overseeing the program, said Thursday.

"States should plan to make payments to eligible claimants for no more than six weeks from the week ending Aug. 1, 2020," according to the spokeswoman.



$2,400 in some states

That equates to a maximum $1,800 — or three weeks' worth of the prior $600-a-week subsidy, which was enacted by the CARES Act coronavirus relief law in March.

Some states, like Kentucky, Montana and West Virginia, are kicking in an extra $100, for a total of $400 per week. Workers in these states would get up to $2,400 total over the six weeks through the Lost Wages program.  

There had previously been questions as to how long unemployed workers would receive the subsidy — and therefore how much money they would get.