From Stimulus Checks To Extra Unemployment Cash Politics And Blunders Delay Lifeline Payments
From the political freeze in Congress, to disruptions to the Lost Wage Assistance benefits in New York, to an unemployment claim backlog in California, many Americans are still awaiting more cash support to help them through the pandemic. CBS 6 recently identified problems with New York’s distrubition of federal Lost Wage Assistance benefits after people said their payment history was deleted. It came on top of issues the Department of Labor (DOL) had already identified and worked through this weekend involving KeyBank, which is the state’s chosen bank to deliver unemployment funds to individuals....