The Biden administration will expand eligibility for unemployment benefits to include workers who turn down jobs at workplaces that are not adequately protecting them from the coronavirus,  the Washington Post reported.

Specifically, the Department of Labor implemented new rules providing that workers whose unemployment benefits were denied because they refused to return to workplaces that were not in compliance with coronavirus health and safety standards—or because they turned down positions at such workplaces—may now collect benefits. The change is effective immediately, although workers have been warned that actual payments may take up to a month to arrive, given the overloads in state unemployment systems over the past year or so.

Once the payments do arrive, though, these workers will receive back payments for what they would have gotten had they not previously been denied.

However, it appears so far that the rule change does not include those who quit jobs because they felt unsafe; it applies only those who turned down jobs at workplaces not in compliance with health and safety standards.