Amid politically-charged state battle over federal unemployment, job seekers tell a more complex tale
July 27, 2021 6:22 PM
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MADISON, Wis. “One of the things is my age.”
Cyndy Suchomel of Deforest had just gotten back from a job interview Tuesday morning. At 64 years old, she’s had to dip into her retirement savings since she lost her job last May and wasn’t able to get unemployment benefits until April 2021.
“I’ve been applying for jobs,” she explained to News 3 Now over the phone on Tuesday. Of her and others in her predicament– “I feel the pain.”
She was fired–for the first time in her long working career–from the call center where she was employed. She went on to win an appeal, proving she had been let go unjustly. That’s what caused an initial denial and delay of unemployment benefits, a hurdle cleared earlier this year when the Department of Workforce Development paid her benefits through May 9 of 2021. That included regular and Pandem
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