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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.