Bennet, Coons, Lankford Introduce Bill to Help Unemployed Workers Start Small Businesses - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet
Posted August 17, 2026
Senators Michael Bennet, Chris Coons, James Lankford and Jon Husted introduced the NO BOSS Act to modernize the federal Self-Employment Assistance program. The bill would let laid-off workers keep unemployment insurance benefits while working full time to start a business. It would remove the requirement that beneficiaries be likely to exhaust benefits and clarify that business planning and feasibility studies count as entrepreneurship work.
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