Most Americans want supplemental unemployment checks to end: survey

Most Americans believe the federal government’s $300-a-week sweetener to state unemployment benefits should end immediately, a new survey has found.

Fifty-two percent of people believe the benefits should end now, with just 30 percent saying they should continue until their Sept. 6 expiration date and 16 percent saying they should continue indefinitely, according to the survey of 2,600 people, conducted by Momentive and the New York Times on June 16. The supplemental checks, which are added to state unemployment benefits, were launched last year to counter the fallout from the coronavirus. Some 3.4 million Americans continue to draw from them.