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Pennsylvania Real-Time News Laid off workers battle outages, jammed phone lines
Pennsylvania Real-Time News
Laid off workers battle outages, jammed phone lines as Pa. unemployment system buckles from coronavirus surge
Today 6:30 AM
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McCreary is one of more than 830,000 Pennsylvanians who in the last two weeks have abruptly found themselves without a job or income following the statewide shutdown of schools and all but “life-sustaining” businesses — decisions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
As of Friday, the number of new unemployment claims filed since the shutdown surpassed the total for all of 2019. That’s placed an unprecedented burden on an already understaffed unemployment compensation system, which was ill-prepared to handle the surge.
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Laid off workers battle outages, jammed phone lines as Pa. unemployment system buckles from coronavirus surge
Today 6:30 AM
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McCreary is one of more than 830,000 Pennsylvanians who in the last two weeks have abruptly found themselves without a job or income following the statewide shutdown of schools and all but “life-sustaining” businesses — decisions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
As of Friday, the number of new unemployment claims filed since the shutdown surpassed the total for all of 2019. That’s placed an unprecedented burden on an already understaffed unemployment compensation system, which was ill-prepared to handle the surge.
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