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August 4, 2020

State clears first backlog of jobless benefit claims

  • The Employment Security Department also says that $576 million was paid out through 86,449 fraudulent claims; $340 million of that has been recovered, to date.
    • By RACHEL LA CORTE
    Associated Press

    OLYMPIA — Employment Security Department Commissioner Suzi LeVine said Monday that an initial backlog of claims of people who had not received payment for unemployment benefits between March and June has been resolved, and the agency has been working through about 30,000 other cases of people who have applied since mid-June and haven't received payment or had previously been paid and had their payments halted.

    LeVine said that first backlog — which was at 81,000 as of June 18 — was fully resolved last Friday. She didn't give a time frame on when the remainder will be resolved, saying there will never be a period of time where all claims are resolved, since new issues arise on claims weekly. Instead, she said the goal is to get resolution of claims down from the current four weeks to three weeks.


     
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