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“For basically six weeks I’ve received nothing.”

One of the responses to the US economic crisis underway was an expansion of unemployment benefits.

But the reality is millions of claims are still unpaid. And that is helping fuel the push to reopen.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The reality is that the implementation of the UI expansion has been far from smooth. Across the country state systems have been overwhelmed.

The first wave was to file unemployment claims. Now the problem is state systems are struggling to administer those claims.
In Maryland a third of claims have not been paid because they are stuck in administrative limbo. That’s 160,000 people waiting. The system is still overloaded. And it’s changing the view of Gov Hogan’s handling of the crisis: baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs…
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