Overpayment Reviews Causing Latest Delays To Hawaii Jobless Benefits - Honolulu Civil Beat
‘Overpayment’ Reviews Causing Latest Delays To Hawaii Jobless Benefits
Many locals, still unemployed in the pandemic, are getting stuck as they try to secure extended benefits from federal COVID-relief packages. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Hawaii is nearly a full year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic devastation that has come with it.
Nonetheless, the state’s labor department is still struggling to pay out the more complex unemployment insurance claims in a timely manner, and officials say the bureaucracy remains hamstrung by a shortage in manpower and an obsolete computer mainframe.
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Tamara Chuang
The Colorado Sun
Colorado’s labor department on Thursday began notifying the first group of out-of-work Coloradans that their federal unemployment benefits are getting ready to start.
“We just started emailing about 230,000 people,” Cher Haavind, deputy director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, said in a message early Thursday afternoon.
Members of a private Facebook group for the unemployed in Colorado also began sharing the emails from the Department of Labor. Those on pandemic aid who had not used up their benefits on Dec. 26 could reopen their claims on Monday, Feb. 1, to request a payment. The $300 weekly bonus, known as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, will be paid automatically, according to the email.
1099-G tax forms are now available for claimants who received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in 2020, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today. Claimants who collected UI benefits last year need the 1099-G tax form from IDES to complete state and federal tax returns. This includes claimants who received regular UI benefits and/or benefits under the new federal pandemic relief programs, including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Lost Wages Assistance (LWA), and state Extended Benefits (EB).
Claimants who opted to receive their 1099-G tax form electronically, which is an option available when claimants establish an IDES account, will receive an email notification with instructions to access the document from the IDES website. Claimants who opted not to receive their 1099-G tax form electronically will receive a paper form via regular mail;
Kokua Line: State alerting some jobless claimants about Extended Benefits as PEUC is delayed
Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Jan. 31 Question : What is going on with the PEUC extension ? It s been a full month now. And they wouldn t process my EB. I could have been on EB all this time and instead, I am getting nothing ! How do they think people can survive like this ?
Answer : The state
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations had hoped to fully launch the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation extension by the end of January, but that is not happening, as you and thousands of other jobless