Around a dozen states have begun paying out the extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits that are part of the recently enacted COVID-19 relief bill, with most states poised to join them by mid-January. Jobless Americans in Arizona, California, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia can expect to receive the unemployment boost soon as these states have started making payments as of Tuesday, according to a tracker. A handful of others are poised to begin $300 disbursements this week, while nearly all states are expected to start by the middle of the month. “There will probably be a couple outliers that don’t get it up for like three weeks, but I think three weeks is really the outside number,” Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, told Yahoo Money. The $300 weekly supplement under the new stimulus package …