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It's been six weeks since recruiter Lynn Atwood of Lafayette, Indiana, was furloughed along with all her staffing company's employees. She's still waiting for her first unemployment check to arrive.
Atwood belongs to a Facebook group of more than 2,000 Hoosiers who've spent much of March and April expressing their frustrations with hold-ups in collecting unemployment benefits. She initially applied on March 20 and says she hasn't a clue when the money will come. Meanwhile, not too far from her Lafayette home, Simon Property Group plans to reopen the local mall this weekend.
"They're reopening the malls here and we don't even have unemployment money to spend there," Atwood said. "It doesn't make sense."
Atwood lives in one of five states with the worst backlogs of unemployment claims, according to a Century Foundation analysis. Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota and South Carolina each had about 98% of its new unemployment applicants from March still waiting for money when the month ended, the analysis found.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/as-jobless-claims-soar-millions-still-await-first-checks/ar-BB13rqeV?li=BBnb7Kz
stopbush
(24,396 posts)I filed on Tuesday under the expanded benefits for indie contractors. Went back to the website this morning to learn my claim had been approved and that I had two months-worth of benefits ready to be certified. I should have that $ in my account by Monday.
Three-day turnaround. Who says government doesnt work?
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)Thats republicans messing up basic governing for you. These intentional delays in their unemployment insurance system is only going to further hurt the economy and any recovery.
msongs
(67,453 posts)few hundred a month to 37% of your workforce in a few weeks. we are catching up.
ffr
(22,672 posts)No wonder the RNC war effort is trying to distract with baseless fake news about anything but Jobless figures.
What does that even look like on a graph? Worse than this, for sure!