Ten thousand dollars isn't a huge grant when stacked up against the cost of living in America - there is a decent portion of the population that has been unable to work during the past year and forced to rely on a lot of programs they never had to in the past including SNAP(food stamps), medicaid and the extended unemployment benefit. The direct cash payments are extremely good because they're so unqualified, but in a lot of states intent to work requirements remain in place to collect unemployment benefits and while the payment amount has been increased the duration of payment hasn't gone up across the board. People can try and hoard the money they're getting out of unemployment but they'd be dealing with a lot of uncertainty. Maybe this will be over in four months - I sure hope so - but there is a chance a new vaccine resistant strain will emerge from spring break or states opening up prematurely and throw us back into full quarantine.

The US government acts slowly to provide relief and the last bill passed purely on a party line (even with one person celebrating the bill while voting against it for political reasons) - if people are facing financial uncertainty I'd definitely understand if they're counting every dollar that comes in and hording it due to the uncertainty of when this will actually end.