Washington’s Unemployment Payouts Are About to Get Even Slower

Washington's Unemployment Payouts Are About to Get Even Slower

Coronavirus People who’ve just lost their jobs now have more things to worry about. PeopleImages/Getty Images

Waiting for an unemployment insurance payout? Well, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer now, thanks to identity thieves who are raiding Washington’s Employment Security Department funds. (And also, capitalism. Everything’s thanks to capitalism.)

"Since the beginning of May, the Employment Security Department (ESD) has been experiencing a dramatic rise in incidents of ‘imposter fraud,’" the ESD said in a statement this week. As a result, they’re imposing an additional one-to-two-day wait period so that they can investigate claims more closely.Or, to […]

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