Independent contractors, self-employed individuals, gig workers and others who are out of a job because of the coronavirus are being encouraged by the Alabama Department of Labor to file unemployment claims even as the state has yet to receive clear instructions on how to process those claims.

Workers who normally are not entitled to unemployment benefits will receive them under the $2 trillion CARES Act signed into law Friday by President Trump.

The Alabama Department of Labor urged these workers to file their unemployment claims immediately even though the benefits are not currently available and “ADOL is awaiting further guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor," the agency tweeted Tuesday night:

Revised: NEW INFORMATION. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. CORRECTED TO SAY WEEKS FILED INSTEAD OF CLAIMS FILED.

We will be posting more instructions as we are able, but hopefully this will help in the meantime. @GovernorKayIvey @ADOLSecretary @ALWorksSystem pic.twitter.com/Ic8nMWKu17 — ADOL (@al_labor) March 31, 2020

Along with coverage of self-employed and other workers who typically don’t receive unemployment, the CARES Act also includes $600 extra per week in unemployment benefits on top of what workers receive from the state.

The Alabama Department of Labor said that $600 benefit will only apply to weeks of unemployment filed on or after March 29.

The agency further told AL.com that it would be able to pay those out of work from the date they stopped working.