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Maryland Labor Secretary addresses months-long wait for unemployment interviews
Maryland Labor Secretary addresses long wait for unemployment benefits
and last updated 2021-03-17 16:33:38-04
BALTIMORE â Maryland Secretary of Labor Tiffany Robinson said at least 25 adjudicators are being added each week to address the backlog of pending unemployment insurance claims.
As of last week, more than 44,000 claims were still pending.
In an interview on Friday, WMAR-2 News Mallory Sofastaii asked Robinson for a timeline on when claimants can expect to hear from someone with the Division of Unemployment Insurance. As quickly as we can possibly get to them thatâs my answer. What I can tell you is, youâve probably seen with all the weekly claim numbers, there was a period of time where the claims started to reduce but they have gone back up. This week, we had over 15,000 new claims, so while our pending numbers and the backlog look like they maybe havenât changed, we