I’m always surprised when these lists don’t include “apply for unemployment benefits”. Which should usually be one of the first things you do when being laid off.
How do people manage to find places to live where $400 a week is enough for rent alone, let alone groceries? Or do I just live in the worst possible area, paying $1600/mo for a small apartment, then having to pay for utilities too, and another $100/mo for internet, and that's not even accounting for groceries.
So if your monthly spend is $2,500 and you get $1,600 from unemployment, then you only need to spend $800 of your savings each month, not $2,500?
You just extended your runway by 3x.
However, $400 a week for a month would be almost 3x the costs of the above, so some of that would go to rent.