Nebraska unemployment site down for days; payments missed

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Nebraska’s unemployment web site, NEworks, remained offline late Friday afternoon.

All different states who work with the corporate that gives the websites, Geographic Options, Inc., are offline, too.

The websites had been taken down on Sunday after it found the assault, the NDOL mentioned earlier this week, and no person information was impacted.

“With out the system up, we can’t confirm who’s eligible for the funds and approve the funds,” a Nebraska Division of Labor spokesperson mentioned.

The problem impacts roughly 3,000 folks. Final week, about 2,500 filed weekly claims, and about 600 extra filed their preliminary declare. Nebraska’s Might unemployment fee, the latest out there, was the bottom within the nation at lower than 2%.

The NDOL expects to obtain a extra detailed timeline on when the location would possibly return on-line Friday night time or over the weekend.

Filings will be capable of be backdated, and eligible Nebraskans will obtain all funds as soon as the location is again on-line, the spokesperson, Grace Johnson, mentioned.

NEworks has job search capabilities, in addition to serving as the way in which to file claims. As a result of that is down, too, the NDOL encourages use of the Nationwide Labor Alternate.

“We encourage people to work with our job facilities throughout the state, who routinely make referrals to packages and providers not simply throughout the Division of Labor, however to different companies,” Johnson mentioned.

Nebraska has 14 job facilities that can reopen on Tuesday after the vacation.

IowaWORKS can be down, impacting work search capabilities in Iowa. However it doesn’t affect funds, as its submitting web site stays on-line.

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