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D.C. government employees prepare for return to their workplaces starting Monday washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Get to know D.C. with our daily newsletter We dive deep on the day’s biggest story and share links to everything you need to know. Get the free newsletter Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… Sponsored The Phillips Collection has been seeing differently since 1921 and now they’re celebrating 100 years of what’s next. Visit the museum Wednesday through Sunday to view over 200 works in the exhibition: Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century. Everyone from laid-off workers to councilmembers has criticized the Department of Employment Services for its communication. Workers who file for unemployment have repeatedly said they receive inaccurate or conflicting information from the department’s call takers. “The call center is a disaster,” says At-Large Councilmember ....
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The District of Columbia’s Inspector General will audit D.C.’s Department of Employment Services, in response to complaints of technical glitches and poor communication, resulting in struggling unemployed workers going weeks or months without income. In a joint oversight roundtable, D.C. Councilmembers Elissa Silverman and Robert White said employees had been asked to stay home to prevent spread of the coronavirus. “That was an incredible sacrifice that we asked of our workers, but the unemployment insurance safety net was supposed to be there to help people make it through this time,” said Silverman. Between mid-March and September 2020, more than 143,000 new claims for unemployment were filed in the District five times the number filed in 2019. ....
Credit: Darrow Montgomery Dozens of laid-off D.C. workers testified to the Council on Wednesday about the ongoing problems at the Department of Employment Services. They named problems that claimants have been experiencing since last spring: miscommunication from DOES, difficulties with out-of-state wages, interruptions in payments whenever the agency needs to make system updates to comply with federal law. The latest problem left countless claimants going without benefits for roughly one month, including Deb Witherspoon, a Capitol Hill resident who waited five weeks to receive money. This left many struggling to afford everyday necessities. DOES Director Unique Morris-Hughes told the press that eligible claimants would begin receiving payment starting April 20, but some weren’t paid until just recently. And a number of claimants are still owed back pay. In light of everything that’s transpired since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, D.C.’s Office of ....