As their unemployment benefits are cut off for lack of funding, the financial picture for more than 200,000 jobless Americans turns bleaker on Monday.

The Hill reported on Saturday that the payments are being disrupted because Congress didn't act before heading out of Washington for its Easter break. The federal lawmakers return to work June 12.

Judy Conti of the National Employment Law Project, said that in the meantime, 200,000-plus unemployed people will see their benefits stopped for at least two weeks at a time they likely have few resources to fall back on.

Conti told The Hill, "Odds are they have burned through savings, already asked for loans and gifts from family and friends if needed, so going for two weeks without a paycheck, especially if those two weeks are a time when rent or mortgage is due, is going to be hard."

The impasse is between Senate Republicans who want the $9.3 billion extension paid for and Democrats who maintain the cost doesn't need to be offset by other cuts because it is emergency spending.

An April 12 cloture vote to end the debate has been scheduled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Reid said in a statement, "With so many families in Nevada and across the country still struggling to find work and make ends meet, it is imperative that Senate Republicans stop blocking the extension of critical unemployment insurance and health benefits. Their obstruction endangers the economic certainty of millions of families."

But Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and other GOP lawmakers put the onus on the Democrats.

Coburn said, "I think it would have been a good idea to stay here and work this out. Unfortunately, we chose not to do that ... because we didn't want to make difficult choices about where we cut spending and eliminate additions to the debt." (With Inputs from Agencies)