It’s been 14 weeks since Ronnie Miller-Watts, 51, applied for unemployment insurance. But she hasn’t seen any money.
As a self-employed worker and business owner who runs Tails to the Trails dog-walking service, she has been forced to dip into her savings for the money she expected from the state for the past months.
“If we had the money, we’d be able to pay bills off, not have to ask for assistance with our mortgage, credit card, city of Vancouver and Clark Public Utilities,” she said.
As of last week, 1,180,748 people had filed for state unemployment insurance claims, but only 856,428 have received payment. Some of those claims were from ineligible cases, but roughly 90,000 are still stuck in review, including Miller-Watts.