Sure Lauren Elizabeth. It can be helpful to give extra time for states to get the money already in their hands into the needy pockets. Unfortunately the states are not well set up for such an undertaking.

That said. The moratorium was a bad policy to adopt from the outset. It undermined the landlord / tenant system and was guaranteed to create a mess. Much better would have been consistency with cash payments to all (below a particular income). Unfortunately that didn't happen. The success of the first payout was followed up on way too late. Now we are having difficulty finding those renters hurting. And landlords, courts and states are involved when they didn't have to be.