Democrats Want Jobless-System Overhaul After Glitches in Crisis
- Bill ‘paves the way’ for centralized unemployment website
- State unemployment systems plagued with glitches, delays
A worker hands out printed unemployment applications in Hialeah, Florida on April 8, 2020.
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden is leading an effort to modernize state unemployment insurance systems through updated technology that would be centralized at the federal level.
Wyden, along with Democratic Senators Sherrod Brown, Mark Warner and Catherine Cortez Masto, introduced the Unemployment Insurance Technology Modernization Act of 2021 on Wednesday, which would require the Labor Department to develop standardized technology for states to use for unemployment filings.