Washington's Unemployment department paying out record high benefits in response to Covid-19 shutdown but still struggling to keep up.
Washington State's Unemployment department put out a press release this morning showing its progress it getting State and Federal benfits into the hands of Washington (ex) Workers. Of 1.4+ million claims 545,178 individual have received benefits totaling 1.4 billion in benefits. The Release: Unemployment claim type For week of April 26-May 2 For week of April 19-25 Regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) initial claims 100,762 137,605 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) initial claims 59,234 190,948 Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) initial claims 40,267 168,165 Continued/ongoing weekly claims 885,768 959,190 Total claims 1,086,031 1,455,908 Since the week ending March 7 when COVID-19 job losses began: A total of 1,428,775 initial claims have been filed during the ...