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Jobless want state to end backlog, pay benefits now

TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Jobless workers upset over the state’s delay in ruling on their unemployment compensation claim are expected to join forces with a group of state legislators in a protest Thursday outside the governor’s regional office in downtown Pittsburgh to demand they get benefits while awaiting for a decision on their claims. “We are asking them to pay people now while they are awaiting a decision by the (unemployment insurance) examiners,” said Barney Oursler, director of the Pittsburgh-based Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, which has organized the protest.

Pay Benefits Now : Unemployed And Legislators Continue To Push PA Officials To Fix Over-Burdened System Backlogs

Demonstrators outside Gov. Tom Wolf s regional office in downtown Pittsburgh on April 14, 2021. A small group of unemployed workers and activists protested downtown Wednesday outside of Gov. Tom Wolf’s regional office, asking the state pay more than 200,000 backlogged unemployment claims. The group was turned away by a building security guard when they attempted to deliver a letter with their demands to Wolf’s office. “I m a single mother of two children. I have been unemployed now for three months. I have gotten zero benefits or any information about when I will get these benefits,” said Kate Potter, who lives in Brighton Heights, and was among the demonstrators. “I don t know when this money is coming, I don t know how I m going to pay my mortgage. I am terrified. This is unacceptable and I am not the only one, unfortunately.”

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