South Carolina tightens Unemployment -Maybe they heard me LOL
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"SCDEW Executive Director Dan Ellzey said his agency continues “to be encouraged by the progress being made in the state’s economic recovery” as South Carolinians return to work.
“Over the past few months, we have moved our focus to filling the open and posted jobs in the state,” Ellzey said.
He said there are 85,000 job openings posted across South Carolina while approximately 116,000 people are receiving unemployment benefits each week.
“That really does not make sense, and we have to get people to start looking for jobs,” he said.
To that end, SCDRW officials say a change is coming quickly.
Ellzey said the agency waived the work search requirement, which is part of state regulation, at the beginning of the pandemic. The waiving of the requirement was made to would-be workers and employers “to navigate through COVID-19.” But he now says it is time to reactivate the requirement.
Beginning Sunday, SCDEW will reinstate the two weekly work search requirements for claimants.
Each week, claimants will need to complete two tasks to remain eligible for UI benefits:
- Complete two work searches in their SC Works Online Services account or the SCWOS app.
- Certify their claim in the MyBenefits portal or on the SC DEW app.
If a claimant can certify their claim each week, they can complete the work searches.
“We have made it clear to claimants, that if they do not perform the two work searches for a claim week, they will not be paid unemployment benefits. It is as simple as that,” Ellzey said.
He called it “a positive step forward” that will bring employers and job seekers together."
Comments
They need to get to work...Chop Chop
My son is a 21 year old born and bred South Carolinian. You should hear him [female dog] about the kids his age. Uri will work 10 to 12 hour days doing outdoor plumbing for a large contractor. He frequently stops for a Mommy cooked supper on his way home. Uri walks in tired, filthy and sometimes a little stinky. When he is done eating he heads for his duplex to shower and crash into his bed, only to get up the next morning and repeat.
Am I proud of my son?? OMG yes. Uri has several good friends. Nice boys. Emphasis on boys. The girls go crazy over Uri. They tell him he is the only man they know his age, all the other boys are just that, boys.
The world is so different now. Where are we going to get the workers we need for our country to survive if the males never grow up and don't know how to work??
More states should reactivate the requirement.
ALL states should mandate that requirement....... fixed if for ya pickenup
Thanks hillbillie. 😁