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What’s Working: Unemployment backlogs, backdates and overpayments in Colorado
Plus: Fidelity has 300 jobs available, PPP forgiveness has begun, understanding your place in unemployment’s alphabet soup and more!
What’s Working: “Lost wages” gets a new deadline, overpayment forgiveness, small business updates and more
Do the 70,000 to 80,000 folks eligible for “Lost Wages” not want their $300-$1,800? Plus, the latest on small business loans, housing help and the new unemployment portal.
Colorado won’t try to collect the $1.4 million in overpaid unemployment benefits it distributed after all
Confusing forms in the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program led some gig workers to overestimate their income.
$338 million in federal “Lost Wages” relief paid to Coloradans so far
About one-third of $553 million for the extra $300 weekly benefits remain, and must be claimed by Oct. 10. About 6% of jobless Coloradans are not eligible
What’s Working: Thousands of fraud holds lifted for Colorado unemployed, while more face pricier health insurance
How some things unexpectedly went from bad to worse for some out-of-work people in Colorado. Plus, Lost Wages benefits begin, more unemployment fraud news and other updates in this week’s What’s Working.
What’s Working: Extra $300 unemployment benefit gets a start date and how Colorado overpaid $40 million in jobless aid
Plus: Hiring by an agency for the homeless, the D.C. COVID relief update and resources for help with rent, utilities and other bills
Colorado stops nearly $1 billion in unemployment benefits from being paid to scammers
The state is working with federal and local agencies to try to recover nearly $40 million that was wrongly doled out
What’s Working: The situation with PUA benefits. Plus, why action is needed to get extra payments.
Getting into the nitty-gritty of Colorado’s unemployment system takes us deeper into holds on PUA payouts, extended benefits and fraud.
What’s Working: Spanish-speaking virtual agents, extra $300 weeks approved and a new small business fund
PUA claims are up because of ... fraud? Plus, the wait to get a call back from the unemployment office is now “four to eight weeks."
What’s Working: Why it takes two months to get a callback on unemployment: 25% of scheduled calls are “no shows”
Plus: New $300 federal bonus is coming soon, with limits; Monarch Casino has 200 jobs; new grants for small businesses.
What’s Working: Unemployment benefits for a year, $300 is the new $600 and how to get that call back
A weekly update on losing a job, finding a new one or hiring extra help.
Colorado to extend state benefits to the unemployed for 13 more weeks
Gov. Jared Polis planning to apply to FEMA for $300 bonus weekly unemployment pay through President Donald Trump's executive order
Fraudulent unemployment claims continue in Colorado, but 30-50% were stopped “at the front door”
New unemployment claims for the first time last week dropped below the highest point of the Great Recession.
Calling Colorado’s unemployment line? You might end up talking to a Google-powered AI
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment is also working to address $17.5 million in overpayments, a depleted Trust Fund and the approaching end of $600 weekly pandemic payments
Fraudsters foiled by Colorado’s unemployment office as number of new out-of-work claims decline
State rolls out fraud prevention tips in case you’re one of those employed folks who received unemployment notices in the mail
Only 6% of calls to Colorado’s unemployment line are getting answered. But changes are on the horizon.
Calls to the state's unemployment call center are 10-30 times higher than pre-coronavirus. Colorado has ramped up its capacity, but soon getting help may no longer require a phone call.