Here in California at least a million unemployed workers still haven’t received a penny of their benefits for the past five months due to an incompetent state unemployment department using obsolete computers and broken phone systems. I would imagine this new extension would be beyond their ability to implement, which means continued suffering for a whole lot of people.
I had to take two furlough weeks, the first of which was April 20. Still haven’t received benefits. I still have the job and I don’t need the money, but it sure doesn’t give one a good feeling about how the system works.
Maryland’s system has been FUBAR too.
Finally after 3 months I called up my district’s congress critter and he fixed everything for me in about a week.
Dozen of times I called, emailed and wrote Hogan through his web site.
I NEVER heard back