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Electronic Unemployment Filing Systems Crashing Across the US

by Tina Kells | January 6, 2009 at 04:42 pm

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Is it a sign of the times or a simple glitch? With jobless claims growing each day in the United States it is no surprise that the unemployment system is becoming burdened, but this week three separate states experienced a crash of their electronic unemployment filing systems. An ominous coincidence or sign of things to come?

Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting their systems to avoid being next.
About 4.5 million Americans are collecting jobless benefits, a 26-year high, so the Web sites and phone systems now commonly used to file for benefits are being tested like never before.

Even those that are holding up under the strain are in many cases leaving filers on the line for hours, or kissing them off with an "all circuits are busy" message. Agencies have been scrambling to hire hundreds more workers to handle the calls.

Systems in New York, North Carolina and Ohio were shut down completely by technical glitches and heavy volume, and labor officials in several other states are reporting higher-than-normal use.

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at 16:59 on January 6th, 2009

That is a good News Video. They should give her a job. She does have a healthy sarcastic sense of humour. Good Post Tina. And no I am not surprised at all that the EUFS has crashed in tree States, sadly so though.