By: Grant Stephens
TULSA, Oklahoma -
Hundreds of Oklahomans got a financial boost Thursday as the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission began sending out its first round of Back to Work payments.
The $1,200 payment is meant to get people off unemployment and into a job. Out of the huge number of applicants to the program, only a fraction were approved.
The chance to get a check worth more than $1,000 from the state is enticing and more than 10,000 Oklahomans like Marni Shaw decided to apply for it.
“This morning I woke up and it was on my card, Shaw said.
Shaw s one of the lucky ones - only 500 applications were actually approved.
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