I was locked out of unemployment communication in 2012. My unemployment ran out (and it wasn’t anywhere near Obama’s upper limits for some, maybe a few months). I persisted in calling to keep reporting that I was unemployed (even without a check, just for statistics) but I clearly wasn’t going to get through.
And this was by design. at 7:59a our hours are....”. a minute later the message would change (from 8:00-5:00PM) “ALL LINES ARE BUSY. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER OR ONLINE.” Except the online system required me to call in since I had “run out”.
The company I worked for applied for (and most likely received) loans but were already outsourcing the work and losing business before the outbreak. It’s been more than a month here with zero income. The state monetarily denied state benefits (1099 contractor), then locked me out of applying after three weeks. Several calls later “oh we’re making a new system for PUA”....nowhere did it say that on their literature or website, in their “townhall”, or from any official source.
I generally spend several hours per week on hold just for the state to give a new excuse and those who answer can only give scripted responses. “Oh, we’re overwhelmed”, “system not set up”, “funds not approved” while they fiddle with a new logo and website. “Oh, we can put in a ticket for that to be pushed to a TEIR 2 agent”. It has been three weeks and no contact from anyone. The governor must have been feeling some heat since he announced last week that PUA should start moving this week. Thus far no changes or reports of such action has been posted on the “new” half-ass UE website.
Governor said the state peaked on March 30th but didn’t start allowing some businesses to reopen until last Friday and the rest to open May 1st. Meanwhile, the DUmocrat-run towns want to extend the lockdown while imposing draconian mandates such as mandatory masks in public with police eagerly enforcing unconstitutional acts by their city mayors.