Vermont
Vermont wants evidence that pandemic unemployment recipients were eligible
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – In 2020, as COVID-19 shuttered companies and compelled hundreds of thousands out of labor, the federal authorities flooded states with funds to arrange new unemployment applications. Now, a yr after a kind of applications expired in Vermont, the state is asking recipients to show that they certified.
Roughly 17,000 Vermonters who enrolled within the Pandemic Unemployment Help program didn’t submit paperwork and the state now says it must confirm their work historical past. The Vermont Division of Labor has spent greater than six months making an attempt to gather the federally mandated paperwork and has solely made it by means of a few third of the backlog. It now expects the trouble to spill into subsequent yr.
Darren Perron spoke with Seven Days’ Colin Flanders, who wrote in regards to the story on this week’s situation.
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