BY ERIC KOLENICH
Richmond Times-Dispatch
At the onset of the pandemic, Richmonder Anita Johnson was laid off from her job of six years as a qualified mental health professional. She applied for unemployment benefits and began receiving a $900 weekly check. Then in October, she was suddenly cut off.
Locked out from the Virginia Employment Commission website, she tried calling but spent hours on hold. She tried emailing but received an automated response detailing how the VEC had been overwhelmed with claims. She even tried filling out paperwork by hand and dropping it off.Â
But Johnson, 59, hasn t gotten a check or an update on her claims in nine months. The state owes her more than $10,000 in unemployment, she said, and that doesn t include the federal money she would have received.
Activists request $1,000 monthly payments from VEC for those waiting on claims
wtvr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtvr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
First Lady Northam visits Woodbrook Elementary
cbs19news.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbs19news.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Charlottesville removes statue at center of 2017 white nationalist rally
The monument of Stonewall Jackson, erected in 1921, is lifted from its pedestal in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Eze Amos/The New York Times.
by Hawes Spencer and Michael Levenson
CHARLOTTESVILLE
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, workers removed the statue Saturday, along with a nearby monument to Stonewall Jackson, another Confederate general.
The larger-than-life-sized statue of Lee was hoisted off its granite base shortly after 8 a.m. as a crowd of about 200 looked on. As the flatbed truck carrying the bronze statue rumbled down East Jefferson Street, a toot of the trucks horn prompted cheers and applause.