Some VA business owners fight ban on skill games
By Katie Barlow
Some VA businesses request investigation into ban on skill games
A group of minority-owned small businesses are asking Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring to investigate whether the ban on skills games that went into effect on July 1 violates Virginia s human rights laws.
VIRGINIA (FOX 5 DC) - A group of minority-owned small businesses are asking Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring to investigate whether the ban on skills games that went into effect on July 1 violates Virginia s human rights laws.
The so-called skill game looks like your everyday slot machine and functions almost just like it, but instead of winning on sheer dumb luck, it requires the user to engage some level of skill to play the game and win.
Missing payments and no help; Richmond woman describes experience with VEC as traumatizing
and last updated 2021-04-22 00:02:41-04
RICHMOND, Va. In an email to the head of the Virginia Employment Commission, a Richmond woman described her experience as traumatizing, after she said payments stopped multiple times with no warning and no assistance.
In her email to Ellen Marie Hess in April, Keshia Eugene added that she was starving, and had lost all faith. The email came after Eugene said her unemployment payments had been stalled or missing, with little to no help from the VEC, three different times since May of 2020 most recently, in March when she got her last check..