Las Vegan Victoria Waked has found herself trapped amid a list of messages telling her the claim she filed for unemployment insurance benefits can’t be processed.
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The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation requires all filers to submit a weekly claim to ensure they are paid, but it’s unclear when gig workers will be able to fulfill that requirement.
The website for gig workers to file unemployment insurance claims will be temporarily shut down starting at 5 p.m. Friday. The Alorica call center will also not be accepting calls.
Technical glitches on the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance website made it difficult for some Nevada gig workers, independent contractors and self-employed workers to file.
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.
Nevada and other states found it difficult to create a system to pay a small addition on claimants’ paychecks, and experts are now finding not much has changed since 2008.