As bills pile up for many jobless workers, stateâs âdinosaurâ benefits system provides only frustration
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff,Updated March 1, 2021, 6:15 p.m.
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Marie Justice-Hughes, a pediatric nurse, waited for an Uber to arrive to take her to work. She got COVID and has been struggling to get back to full-time work and hasn t gotten her unemployment benefits for the past eight weeks.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
For many Massachusetts workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic, the stress of being laid off has been magnified by the Sisyphean effort to navigate a balky unemployment system that has been hammered by more than 2.7 million new claims filed since mid-March of last year.
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