Backlogging issues for unemployment claimants has been a problem from the onset of the pandemic, but according to Alejandro Bodipo-Memba, Delaware Department of Labor communications consultant, an increased number of fraudulent claims has been to blame.
- Or get a job. — John Smith
- Who shut down those businesses? Hold them accountable. — Tom Small
- Well, they only shut down the small businesses. They let Amazon and every other mega-billion-dollar corporation remain open. Because Democrats care about the small guy! — Kelly Lord
- I know someone still awaiting a backlog of unemployment that’s been in a pending status for nearly a year. She was a substitute teacher in a time when everyone was at home, schooling through Zoom meetings, so she couldn’t find work in her field. She nearly lost her family house. — Christian Orendorf
- We were told from a big company that you can’t get unemployment for COVID, so we had to collect sick pay, which was a lot less than unemployment. — Colleen Mooney
- A lot of people are actually getting better jobs, particularly the restaurants’ workers who were living off slave wages with the expectations of tips to fill in the gap. So for many, they turned a negative — the pandemic and the lockdown — into a positive by reinventing themselves and moving on to the much better, higher-paying careers. Much respect for all of you that broke that chain of a horrible way to make a decent living! — Michael Jones
