With unemployment across North Carolina at its highest rate in decades, tens of thousands of workers trying to claim benefits were stymied by two days of computer problems.
The problems involve an online system that people receiving benefits use to confirm they are still looking for a job so they will continue to receive unemployment checks. With 200,000 North Carolinians out of work, the outages that started Sunday and continued Monday caused significant disruption.
"There's no time that's a good time for this to happen," Moses Carey, chairman of the state Employment Security Commission, said Monday. "People rely on this money." (N&0)
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