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May 6, 2021
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As we witness incidents of brutality and violence against members of the Black community across the country, join us for a special Courageous Conversation featuring community-based guest panelists to reflect on our roles as educators, colleagues and active citizens in combatting the criminalization of Blackness.
Hosted by Natoya Haskins, Director of Diversity & Inclusion in the School of Education, our panel will include:
Linwood Blizzard, Candidate for House of Delegates, Senior Pastor of the Macedonia Baptist Church in Heathsville, Virginia
Deborah Cheesebro, Associate Vice President for Public Safety and Chief of Police, William & Mary
To understand the frustrations some Virginians are experiencing with unemployment benefits, itâs worth spending a few minutes chatting with Eddie Seay. Though the progressive activist is based in Franklin County, heâs been working on behalf of aggrieved workers throughout the commonwealth.
Months after their layoffs, many are still waiting for their unemployment benefits to begin, Seay told me. For others, benefits started but were mysteriously cut off. And getting an explanation for either is often impossible, he added.
On one day last week, Seay said he made 126 phone calls to the agencyâs toll-free line on behalf of claimants who for one reason or another havenât received benefits they believe were due. Not once among all those calls was Seay able to talk to a human at the VEC, he said.
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Class-action lawsuit filed against VEC due to âfailures in unemployment insurance systemâ This comes more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic which left hundreds of thousands of Virginians unemployed. (Source: WAVE 3 News) By NBC12 Newsroom | April 15, 2021 at 11:05 AM EDT - Updated April 15 at 11:14 AM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Virginia Employment Commission for âcommon failuresâ regarding its unemployment insurance system.
This comes more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic which left hundreds of thousands of Virginians unemployed.
Several legal groups including the Legal Aid Justice Center, Legal Aid Works and the Virginia Poverty Law Center are working on behalf of five plaintiffs seeking relief for them and others similarly impacted who have waited months for the VEC to approve their claims.
HOPEWELL Natasha Brown always expected her utilities to be around $25, maybe $30 in the hotter months.
Then her utilities started to climb. Month after month, her bill would rise exponentially although her usage remained the same. The bills kept rising, so bad she recalls receiving a bill for $294. At its highest, her rent would hit $500.
Brown had to see what was up. She says she went to her complex representative to complain around eight times, only to be given the runaround. A number here, a name there, but no matter what she was given it led to the same conclusion nothing. She was stuck.