Tag: COVID relief checks
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First check improved assessment of ability to cover $400 expense, and later payments may be building balance sheets. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a booming economy, about 40 percent of households said they would have trouble paying a $400 unexpected expense. About half of these households really didn’t have $400, and the other half had…