Deadline to File Claims Nears as Pa. Unemployment Site to Shut Down for Week Pennsylvania s Department of Labor and Industry is shutting down its website at 9 p.m. Wednesday night ahead of a relaunch of a new unemployment computer platform June 8. By NBC10 Responds •
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Anyone who needs to file a weekly unemployment claim in Pennsylvania must do so by 9 p.m. tonight or wait a week to submit for compensation because the state is shutting down its computer processing system ahead of a planned reboot.
The deadline is for weekly compensation claims through the Department of Labor and Industry Unemployment Compensation (UC) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) systems.
The federal government has pumped about $4 trillion into the US economy since the pandemic began in March 2020, sending cash directly to households, boosting unemployment benefits and creating several new grant and loan programs for businesses.
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A 35-year-old single mother ripped Gov. Larry Hogan’s recent decision to discontinue federal unemployment benefits, calling it “discrimination” that has left her scrambling to figure out how she is going to survive.
“It was like a slap in the face. I can’t believe he did that,” Lindsay Gallagher told MarylandReporter.com on Wednesday.
Gallagher is a Crofton resident who spent 18 years working as a purchasing manager. She has a seven-year-old son whom she said she has been unable to enroll in summer daycare due to extensive waitlists that prioritize placement for the children of essential workers.
“This is discrimination against single parents.”
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The Labor Department inspector general found that most states took more than 30 days to expand unemployment benefits to the new pools approved by Congress, a timeline the report calls “an unreasonable length of time for UI claimants experiencing financial hardships as they struggled to pay bills and satisfy basic needs, such as food and housing.”
California took 32 days to set up the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which provides money to those who haven’t previously qualified for unemployment, including the self-employed and gig workers. The state took 61 days to implement the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which gives money to people who have exhausted benefits provided by the state but are still unemployed because of the pandemic.