TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Seven months of frustration trying to get the state to release thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits from last year ended for a Southwest Greensburg man this past weekend when he got a long-awaited check from the Labor Department.
“I won’t have to worry so much,” Scott Flanigan, 58, said Monday about receiving the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits he had been fighting for since last spring. Flanigan, a self-employed beautician, said he got a few checks for the period from mid-March through June, when the state closed beauty salons and barber shops in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus. Then his PUA benefits designed for gig workers, freelancers and the self-employed stopped, Flanigan said.
The recent renewal of the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, after its expiration in late December, has reactivated the interest of fraudsters, a
âI feel like my back is against the wallâ: Local woman details unemployment woes
Unemployment Woes By Ashley Joseph | February 1, 2021 at 8:02 PM CST - Updated February 2 at 1:08 PM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -We continue to hear from viewers who are struggling to navigate the stateâs unemployment system, some of which are still waiting to receive unemployment checks.
Shamika Williams says sheâs been filling out job applications since she lost her job shortly after Hurricane Laura in August. Sheâs also tried reaching out to the Louisiana Workforce Commission about her most recent issue with unemployment but says it been hard to get a callback.
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Clanton: The city has lost a second elected official to the coronavirus pandemic six months after the longtime mayor died of COVID-19. City Council member Sammy Wilson died Thursday while in a hospital where he was being treated for the illness caused by the new virus, WBRC-TV reports. A statement by Mayor Jeff Mims said the town of 8,800 people was thankful for Wilson’s service to the community. Council member Mary Mell Smith called Wilson’s death “a big loss.” “He had that big smile on his face every time you saw him,” she said. Wilson died about six months after Billy Joe Driver, who had served as mayor for 36 years before he died of COVID-19 in July. Mims was elected to replace Driver.