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Overpayment Reviews Causing Latest Delays To Hawaii Jobless Benefits - Honolulu Civil Beat
‘Overpayment’ Reviews Causing Latest Delays To Hawaii Jobless Benefits
Many locals, still unemployed in the pandemic, are getting stuck as they try to secure extended benefits from federal COVID-relief packages. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Hawaii is nearly a full year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic devastation that has come with it.
Nonetheless, the state’s labor department is still struggling to pay out the more complex unemployment insurance claims in a timely manner, and officials say the bureaucracy remains hamstrung by a shortage in manpower and an obsolete computer mainframe.