State Agencies Say Labor Shortages Are Impacting Processing Times For Unemployment Claims

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Thousands of Marylanders are inactive waiting for unemployment checks and the institution assisting the authorities is moving overtime to marque it happen. But, the labour shortage is taking its toll connected these authorities agencies.

”I expect much advancement to beryllium made successful the coming weeks. I privation to reply each call, each time of the week. They are inactive answering the telephone 7 days of the week, by the way, my unit is moving overtime 7 days a week,” said Tiffany Robinson, Secretary for the Maryland Department of Labor.

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For the adjacent six months, the authorities volition proceed moving with Alorica. They person processed 844,000 claims, astir 97.9 percent, but the 2.1 percent that remains correspond thousands of Maryland families.

The Unemployed Workers Union held a rally Monday expressing their vexation astir the backlog. One antheral said his relationship is enactment connected clasp each fewer months.

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Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot is begging the Dept of Labor to fig this retired soon. “Try to present arsenic overmuch arsenic you can, due to the fact that determination is simply a batch of suffering retired there,” Franchot said.

Alorica hopes to prosecute an further 675 employees. They said they person struggled to employment fractional of that with lone 250 employees currently.

“I anticipation you cognize we are doing the champion we tin and we perfectly volition get the benefits to each Marylander who deserves them,” Robinson added.

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Fraud remains a nationalist problem. The FBI continues to hunt done morganatic unemployment claims.

Rachael Cardin