Colorado\u2019s unemployment office says it needs a new system, because over the last 6 months, identity thieves filed up to a third of all new applications for jobless benefits\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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That\u2019s said to be slowing down checks for real people, who really need that money. Some of the actual unemployed are getting notifications for several weeks in a row, saying there are in the state\u2019s words, \u201cpending issues\u201d as to why they got payments of zero, that actually should be several hundred dollars a week to live on. Some jobless folks tell reporters they\u2019d had those checks coming in, but they suddenly stopped without explanation, and the state claimed they\u2019d have to do a new round of identity verification. But after they did so, the checks never started back up, so some of those jobless haven\u2019t been paid at all, for as long as 9 weeks. The state says it\u2019s suddenly ditched \u201cID Me,\u201d an identity-verification tool that was used throughout the pandemic, and is now running the state\u2019s own system to make sure people are who they say they are, due to the success hackers are having. Some of the legitimately unemployed say things are so backed up, they\u2019re waiting on thousands in payments, and having trouble coming up with new explanations to give to their young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Colorado\u2019s unemployment office says it needs a new system, because over the last 6 months, identity thieves filed up to a third of all new applications for jobless benefits\u2026 (Jobless Who Can\u2019t Get Checks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :49) That\u2019s said to be slowing down checks for real people, who really need that money. Some of the actual unemployed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}