Leona Foxworth started to cry as she discussed being laid off last week from her job as an executive assistant at a Manhattan church. “I absolutely loved my job, so it’s been a rough few days.”
The New York State Department of Labor processed more than 369,000 initial unemployment applications in the week ended March 28, representing a 2,674% increase compared with the same week last year. Claims have skyrocketed across the state, most significantly in Long Island and western New York, where applications increased more than 3,300% compared with the same period last year. Across the country, a record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week.
New York has struggled to process the flood of unemployment claims, with many laid-off workers unable to get through on the state’s website or by phone to complete their applications. To help manage the volume of applications, the labor department has added staff, extended hours and implemented a staggered application process that asks people to file claims on certain days of the week based on the first letter of their last names.
New Jersey Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said the department is still waiting for federal guidance related to the expanded unemployment insurance included in the recently passed federal stimulus package. But he encouraged all laid-off workers to apply for the enhanced benefits, including freelancers, gig workers and independent contractors, who were previously ineligible.
Mr. Asaro-Angelo said he expected the additional $600 weekly unemployment benefit, which will be given to laid-off workers under the new federal stimulus package, will be available and paid out to residents by the end of next week.
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