Nevada's unemployment system continues to be plagued by computer glitches and phone-hotline delays, despite incremental progress to pay out claims erroneously delayed or denied.
In the class-action lawsuit filed by applicants who have yet to see their claims processed, a Nevada judge ruled Thursday to not require the state unemployment office pay out benefits en masse to laid-off workers.
The judge limited the scope of a July court order that required the state pay out claims to gig and independent workers who had their wages cut.
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On Saturday he Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) also announced that in order to conduct regular system updates, they would be temporarily taking the unemployment insurance site (http://ui.nv.gov) and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) systems offline.
