The federal relief act that has made unemployment assistance available to people who previously wouldn't have been eligible has made a stressful process even more complicated.
"They've had to ask questions they didn’t have to ask before,'' Gould says."I think that's why you're seeing longer wait times in some states ... Some states have more clarity and are processing claims much more quickly than others.''Even some workers who would typically be able to access unemployment insurance without the special federal provisions in place are having a hard time getting it.
Now he checks the state's unemployment website daily. “I have to refresh a million times before I can even log in’’ says Sweeney, who adds that he’s called hundreds of times in the past month. Not only does the size of financial benefits differ from state to state. So does the amount of difficulty people may encounter when they apply.
Oberst was laid off in September from her job as a regional sales manager for a wine company when the business was purchased. Her jobless claim went through quickly then, and she soon began receiving roughly $350 a week, after taxes. Maryland’s Labor Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment but said in a post Monday that the unemployment division's new one-stop application was meant to streamline the process. “The launch of the site has clearly fallen short,’’ it said.
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