Thousands of Coloradoans are reportedly in limbo, trying to prove they’re real people in order to gain state unemployment benefits they’re owed…
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At least one of those people says they’re finally getting some help. The state says it’s trying to work through a backlog of claims that got flagged by a new computer program that was ultimately meant to prevent fraud. The state employment division says some 22 thousand claims, about a third of all those filed since April, are now on hold while the state verifies people’s identities. One woman, Anna Goss, lost her job back in March of this year, and says she’d gotten only 2 payments when her account got flagged. Goss spent 3 months trying to prove she was the real deal…
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Goss says she was told by the state late last week that all her months of back payments are finally on the way. The state says, of the thousands of claims on hold, only 57 hundred of those people are still trying to get their jobless benefits. The state says it believes that’s a sign they’re authentic people like Goss.