Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that people will start getting relief checks within three weeks, as the country reels from the coronavirus pandemic.
Mnuchin spoke to CNBC the morning after the Senate passed a $2 trillion stimulus package intended to blunt economic damage from the spread of the coronavirus. The House is expected to vote on the legislation Friday.
The massive relief bill offers direct cash payments of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for couples, with $500 added for every child, based on 2019 tax returns for those who filed them and 2018 information if they have not. The benefit begins to phase out for individuals making $75,000 in income and ends completely for those making $99,000 or more.
"Most of these will be direct deposit, so we call them checks in the mail, but it will be three weeks," Mnuchin said.
"We're determined to get money in people's pockets immediately. That will be within three weeks."
The payments would come amid a historic spike in jobless claims: Weekly initial unemployment claims totaled nearly 3.3 million, by far a record, according to data released Thursday.
"I just think these numbers right now are not relevant," Mnuchin said when asked about that staggering figure.
Still, market futures turned positive shortly after the jobless numbers were announced. After shedding trillions of dollars in value for weeks, stocks rose Thursday for the third straight day, as lawmakers rushed to provide relief for ailing industries and individuals.
President Donald Trump has also strongly signaled that he wants the economy "reopened" as soon as possible. Trump suggested repeatedly this week that areas of the country with comparatively low numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases could allow businesses to reopen in just a few weeks, if not sooner.
But it's far from clear which states, if any, would agree to quickly loosen the extreme measures they have imposed to slow the spread of the disease.
Nearly every state in the country has declared a state of emergency amid the pandemic as confirmed cases continue to rise rapidly throughout the country – especially in "hot spots" such as New York and Washington. New states were ordering all residents to stay home as recently as Wednesday.
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