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Industries like retail, healthcare and social assistance, and food service are still seeing the most claims, the VEC said in the release. Part of that is they have the deepest losses to recover from.
“Obviously the high touch in-person sectors took the hardest, hit leisure and hospitality as a sector by far leading the losses in COVID,” said Renee Haltom, the regional executive for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Haltom speaks with business and community leaders to hear how they are experiencing the economy.
“What businesses seem most optimistic about is that demand is basically back,” she said. “The number one concern I d probably say is challenges finding workers.
Jahd Khalil reports
The commission has to go through over 90,000 claims by Labor Day, according to a settlement reached at the end of May. The three legal groups representing unemployment claimants say they think the VEC isn’t going through a backlog of unemployment claims fast enough to keep up with new claims.
The Legal Aid Justice Center, the Virginia Poverty Law Center, and Legal Aid Works say that the VEC reported it had 40,000 claims left. But they also estimate that 30,000 new claims came into the system.
Delegate Rodney Willett of Henrico County said that his office has many constituents who have had issues getting their claims resolved.
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