What to do if you can't get on your state's unemployment website

More than 280,000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week—a 33 percent spike from the previous week.

Unemployment websites are crashing as the number of claims in the U.S. skyrocket because of the coronavirus outbreak.

"Unemployment is a week-by-week situation. There's always a tremendous amount of activity on Monday, but there's no real advantage to filing on Monday versus Tuesday or Wednesday," said Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a public policy research group. If for some reason none of those options work, which would be rare, Stettner advised documenting your inability to access the website in order to try to get those benefits at a later date.

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