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Contact him at wdoran@newsobserver.com or (919) 836-2858. Congress approved extra unemployment benefits for people in a recent federal stimulus package. WH chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive for COVID-19, Wake Schools reveal compliance plans as middle schoolers return, School counselor revamps morning announcements to be virtual, 2020 election results: Biden pulls ahead in PA, GA | LIVE, LATEST: 99,000 absentee ballots still outstanding in NC, 'You owe us money:' Cartel text scam threatens Raleigh family. State officials have previously said that at the height of the Great Recession a decade ago, the unemployment office was seeing 100,000 new claims a month. RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The heartbreak for the unemployed continues in North Carolina as many have gone weeks without a paycheck and still can't get their unemployment benefits. In 2016 he started The News & Observer’s fact-checking partnership, PolitiFact NC, and before that he reported on local governments around the Triangle. While strong winds and localized flooding are the main risks, there is still a chance for an isolated tornado or hail. Ann McAdams has worked in the Wilmington television market for more than 20 years. This is because the unemployment office will have far more applications to process and may take longer to process your application because of the number of applications ahead of yours.

What will it take for a winner to be declared in the 2020 election? This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The North Carolina Department of Transportation wants signs and markers for the Jefferson Davis Highway removed from the state’s right of way. They say they filed for unemployment that day, and bought three weeks of groceries.

After 30 minutes, you can try to sign in again or reset your password yourself,” the department added. So for people like us, going for three weeks without any kind of income coming in, it hurts. She’s frustrated that her family can’t get through to a real person at the unemployment office for help, and that elected officials aren’t saying much about when the backlog will end. But they are still buried by incoming claims, apparently so buried they are not responding to questions about when they might be able to work through the backlog, or exactly how many displaced workers are still trying to file. MacMillan said Cooper remains in frequent contact with leaders at the unemployment office, echoing what Cooper himself told reporters on Tuesday. Stephaine said when this started, her family stayed home from work trusting that the elected officials behind the stay at home orders had a plan in place after they shut down her family’s way to make a living. So we feel like we’re adrift at sea on our own,” Stephaine said. Even without the extra applications yet from people like Barroso who expect to apply only for the federal benefits, Taylor has said the massive volume of unemployment claims is already like nothing North Carolina has ever seen before. Stephaine Bessette’s family is one of the ones waiting in limbo. But just between March 16 and April 9, North Carolina saw 509,693 new unemployment claims. ““They don’t understand that everything’s accelerated,” Mark Barroso, a freelance TV crew member from Pittsboro told the N&O recently, questioning why the federal benefits were taking so many weeks. As of February North Carolina had 5.1 million people in the labor force, which counts people who are working or looking for work. While there are still few answers for those waiting for their unemployment claims to be approved, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) payments are expected to begin going out by April 17, according a news release provided by North Carolina’s Department of Employment Security (DES) Thursday. “The cash is gone. He said even after he had his account reset, he had to get up early one morning before the DES office opened to file for benefits online. “If your account is locked, it will automatically unlock after 30 minutes. It’s going to hurt for a while," Stephaine said. 1 priority,’ Wake says, when middle schools reopen Monday, NCDOT moves to eliminate references to Jefferson Davis Highway in North Carolina, NC’s two biggest races unlikely to change as officials continue to count ballots, Here’s the latest on the number of potential votes left to count in NC, If you voted in North Carolina, here’s how to check whether your vote has been counted, In North Carolina, the vote count continues as Republicans protest, NC first lady apologizes for Facebook comment about ‘flipping off’ Trump supporters, Election update: In Mecklenburg, absentee ballot count continues, Don’t wave the white flag: Republicans urge Trump not to concede election amid count. The bills that were due the first of the month ate through the last of their savings, so the Bessettes now find themselves out of money and out of food.

We lived paycheck to paycheck as it was.

A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. Gov. But they are still buried by incoming claims, apparently so buried they are not responding to questions about when they might be able to work through the backlog, or exactly how many displaced workers are still trying to file. why the federal benefits were taking so many weeks. That’s the case in most of the rest of the country, too, as millions of people are suddenly out of work and seeking benefits — although some recent reports have said that North Carolina has been among the states hardest-hit by job losses. Tell us about your healthcare heroes here. Copyright 2020 WECT. Safety is our ‘No. North Carolina has also had among the nation’s lowest-paying unemployment benefits for years, after the state legislature approved large-scale cuts in 2013, The News & Observer has reported.