Perhaps the unemployment credit that reduces your AGI also changes other things that depend on the AGI so you do need to amend to get other credits.
Amended returns normal take up to 16 weeks (4 months) to process, but because of the huge (19 million unprocessed returns) due to the COVID backlog, amended is currently taking 6-8 months to process.
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