Many workers don't qualify for unemployment benefit, and many circumstances where you leave your job don't qualify you to get benefits. Many people who were receiving benefits now are no longer eligible because of the federal cut off or because of state cut offs that happened before that. There is research that where there are more unemployment benefits, workers, in some cases, are able to hold out,. And that, depending on who you ask, is one of the best or worst things about having the system.

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