NJ DOL Says People Are Answering Questions Incorrectly - That is Why Payments Are Delayed (claim, federal)

[BugsyPal]

From NJ.com

"Tens of thousands of unemployment claimants are answering a federally mandated question wrong every week, holding up their own claim, the Labor Department said.

“It doesn’t mean they did anything wrong, but these are federally mandated questions we need to ask for weekly certification,” said Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said during an interview on NJ Spotlight. “20,000 claimants a week — 20,000 a week — were still being ‘pended’ because one of those eight questions was being answered in a way that we had to pend their claim per federal rules.”


https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/02/...hief-says.html

[scraprsmith]

Originally Posted by BugsyPal

From NJ.com

"Tens of thousands of unemployment claimants are answering a federally mandated question wrong every week, holding up their own claim, the Labor Department said.

“It doesn’t mean they did anything wrong, but these are federally mandated questions we need to ask for weekly certification,” said Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said during an interview on NJ Spotlight. “20,000 claimants a week — 20,000 a week — were still being ‘pended’ because one of those eight questions was being answered in a way that we had to pend their claim per federal rules.”


https://www.nj.com/politics/2021/02/...hief-says.html

Yes I saw his Q&A on Saturday and posted the link to the Q&A session with David Cruz a day or so ago. It actually was one of his better "interviews"/press conferences IMO.

What was of equal importance is that he did mention that many times (depending on whether it is something not federally required for an Agent to speak to a claimant about) when the system update runs on Friday night or Saturday the claim will be unpended and payments will be released the following week. It depends on whether they feel that it is a reason that requires them to speak to a claimant versus just automatically unpending it with the weekly system update.