Several of Nevada’s largest business organizations joined Gov. Steve Sisolak’s call for people to stay home and increase safety precautions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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“It’s so confusing,” Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada Attorney Jim Berchtold said.
Remote work has its upside, but it poses a threat to the commercial real estate market.
A new federal order is poised to provide another lifeline to renters concerned about evictions and another challenge to landlords.
When Nevada’s moratorium on evictions lifts, experts expect a flood of eviction notices to renters to follow.
Hope is dissolving into fear for thousands of unemployed Nevadans as Saturday marks the end of a federal provision that paid an additional $600 a week in unemployment insurance benefits.
“At a point, you just give up,” Laura Shipton said. “It’s been over three months now. It’s never going to happen. It’s a pipe dream.”
Some claimants have become so frustrated they’ve organized a protest.
Heather Korbulik says the goals are to process people en masse at the unemployment office, get the call center phased in and help people get through on those lines.
The maintenance will not impact the state unemployment insurance website (ui.nv.gov) and filers will still be able to access the state’s unemployment insurance website, ui.nv.gov, as well as file online.
“We are following guidelines from health officials and medical experts,” said company spokesman Timothy Carter in a statement.
Many facing the final weeks of their pre-COVID-19-era unemployment insurance are unsure whether the unemployment benefits of the CARES Act apply to them.
The Irvine, California-based company is looking to fill positions at its two call centers in the Las Vegas Valley.
Nevada unemployment officials say they are awaiting federal guidelines on implementing the CARES Act, causing a delay for people to claim benefits in the relief package.
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation has tips that may help new and returning claimants get through the process a bit quicker and with a little less stress.