How to contact the unemployment office in New York: Phone, Email, and Postal Address
Have questions about your unemployment benefits and in need of support from the NY Department of Labor, here is how to get in touch with them.
MIKE SEGAR
REUTERS
As of April 2020, more than
778,000 New Yorkers are unemployed. While the numbers are still high relative to pre-pandemic levels (
3.8% in January 2020), they are down significantly from last April when they reach
1.4 million. The unemployment rate has been cut in half since its high of
16.2% recorded a year ago.
In March 2020, the unemployment rate in New York City, reached
New York’s Unemployment Claims System Still Doesn’t Work Thousands of state residents needed to reapply for unemployment benefits after their one-year mark, once again overwhelming the state’s system, leaving claimants without answers or benefits. Michelle Breidenbach, syracuse.com | April 5, 2021 | News
(TNS) New York’s website to sign up for unemployment benefits still doesn’t work.
One year after hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers jammed the state’s system with new claims, the state continues to leave people stranded without benefits for weeks and months.
There’s a new pileup as people reach the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus shutdown that put them out of work last March. The state requires some people to reapply, but not others. They mostly have to sort it out for themselves. It’s confusing.
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Unemployment benefits in New York: how to claim weekly payment
A January boost to New York unemployment benefits brought stability in jobless support to those who continue to work part-time. Here’s how to apply for weekly benefit.
Mike Groll
EFE
Since March 2020, New York State has
distributed over $62 billion in unemployment benefits to 4 million New Yorkers. This amounts to more than would typically be given out in 29 years. This figure includes over
$1 billion paid during the week of January 4, 2021 to New Yorkers through
newly-extended federal unemployment programs.
Then in January, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo announced as part of his
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Has someone been collecting unemployment benefits in your name? You might think it’s an odd question but thousands of people in our region are finding out the hard way they’ve been the victim of identity theft and now, at tax time, they’re stuck cleaning up the mess.
At the start of the pandemic when the economy was shut down, unemployment claims were coming in fast and furious. New York State’s unemployment website was constantly crashing, the phone lines were crushed and those in need were made to wait weeks if not months for the benefits they were entitled to.