The Oregon Employment Department's new system for unemployment benefits is reportedly delaying some families' ability to get the money they need on time.
A Portland family fears they could be left with no option other than to sell their home after a glitch in the freshly-revamped unemployment insurance system spiraled into a devastating problem that left a recently laid-off father unable to collect. 'It’s been five weeks, coming up on six weeks now, that I have seen dime zero. We’ve burned through our reserves,' Gregory Smith told Portland's KOIN 6 News.
Unfortunately, their troubles seem to be relentless. The systematic error wreaking so much havoc, Smith said, comes from one incorrect digit entered in his address. According to the report, he has tried multiple times to get the issue resolved and has done so in multiple ways, but his efforts keep coming up dry.
She told the outlet, 'You don’t know if you’re going to be denied, if you might be expecting a check in the next week or two — you know nothing.' Problems persist once the claimant's benefit is flagged. The claim then undergoes a process known as adjudication to investigate and determine the outcome.
Smith, meanwhile, insists that the revamped system should be fixed for the benefit of those displaced by its rollout. Fox News Digital reached out to the Oregon Employment Department for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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