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The Department of Labor says a power shortage took its unemployment benefit filing system offline.

The state has now received more than 515,000 unemployment claims since March 13, and many applicants are still having issues getting their payments

The Department of Labor said in its weekly briefing during the coronavirus crisis that it has received more than 500,000 unemployment claims in just two months.  The department said more than 400,000 of those have been processed, or are in process.  The agency added that it still has about a one week delay getting applications into processing. Max Pieper of…

The state has given the self-employed their first chance to file for unemployment benefits but the process can’t be completed until next week