PA’s Unemployment System Still Dealing with a Case Backlog Over Two Years After Pandemic Shutdowns

By Kate Giammarise | WESA

Published March 28, 2022 at 11:16 PM EDT

Labor and Industry Building, 651 Boas Street, Harrisburg.

More than two years after the first pandemic-related business shutdowns, a backlog of cases continues to plague Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation system. WESA’s Kate Giammarise reports on the bottleneck keeping the state from quickly resolving more than 40,000 backlogged claims.

Read the full story at: https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-03-28/part-of-pennsylvanias-persistent-unemployment-compensation-backlog-not-enough-workers

(Original air-date: 3/28/22)

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Kate Giammarise | WESA

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

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