She is inept. She manipulated ESD policy & delayed or denied payments when she had the ability to pay them leaving so many stranded. Who allows a 600 million dollar fraud and then doesn’t ensure that their data is secure. She wants to deflect blame.
1/7 of Washtonians are exposed by this breach. If all the records were ESD applicants then more than 1.5 million people applied for unemployment in 2020. If this is so it needs to be checked against WA UE rate based on #claims paid
The kicker is checking accts are compromised so you change the # right? Well if you submit that type of change to ESD it likely triggers adjudication & your pay can be delayed for weeks. She will let this happen to how many thousands of people?
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Investigate Suzi Levine @USDOL pick for Asst Sec. Labor Education & Training who, as Commissioner of Washington Employment Security Department (ESD), in commission of her duties was negligent & inept and she abused her power as Commissioner
to subvert established policies & procedures to deny or delay unemployment claims during a State & National emergency. Her inability to properly manage ESD resulted in the loss of 600 million dollars to fraudulent activity at the beginning of our National crisis.
@RepDerekKilmer Please oppose Suzi Levine’s pick as Assistant Labor Secretary of Education & Training. As you know under her watch as the head of WA ESD 600 million dollars was fraudulently stolen from the department. Next, 1.5 mil claimants had their data exposed to hackers.
The fraud plus the huge influx in claimants caused LeVine to run the ESD by harming the claimants. In the determination letter to claimants ESD says that while they are establishing your claim they “may” pay you. There is no guidance in how they make the determination.
This arbitrary & ambiguous statement is intended to protect the interest of the department. I remind you that Federal Law requires ESD to require employers to respond to separation correspondence within 10 days.