13 career centers across the state opened for people with issues regarding their state unemployment insurance payments to get in-person help for the first time since last summer.
The centers, including one in Hopkinsville, can help nearly 600 people statewide a day. This comes after the state shut down its UI computer system to fight an abundance of fraud and cyber attacks that saw people’s accounts accessed and money rerouted to other accounts.
Amy Cubbage, who works as a general counsel for Governor Andy Beshear, said the system reboot has worked well.
click to download audioCubbage said 30,000 people have re-registered in the system with a new eight-digit pin number for account access. That’s about 10-percent of the people who previously had an account.
Cubbage also said people who filed their federal taxes before Congress passed a new law that exempted the first $10,200 in earnings will not need to file an amended return.
click to download audioWhile the state has been focusing on recent fraud issues from its outdated UI computer system, Kentuckians who filed claims over a year ago when the pandemic began still have not received a payment. Cubbage did not provide a number Thursday of how many initial claims the state has yet to pay.
