An interesting and at the time little-known fact during one of the shutdowns ~15 years ago was that you could file for temporary unemployment benefits in advance of the shutdown so you'd have cash flow during the "outage" and not have to wait that two weeks before receiving benefits.
If no outage occured, there was no penalty for filing in advance; your case was just closed.
If you got back pay after the "outage" was over, you had to refund it, but at least you could buy groceries and cat food and pay your ISP bills in the meantime.
That's for Colorado and a while ago, but it might be worth looking into in your State. By now, it might even be common knowledge, but it was a big surprise to many folks at the time.
Terry, 230RN