Thread: North Carolina Jobless Claims Overwhelm Web Site

North Carolina Jobless Claims Overwhelm Web Site

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 2:11 PM

Unemployment is up so much in North Carolina that the state's Internet site for benefits crashed twice this week under a rush of claims.

The number of people trying to sign up online for new or continuing benefits was as much as triple pre-recession levels Sunday and Monday, the Employment Security Commission said. That volume, together with a phone line problem, overwhelmed the agency's computers and prevented some people from filing claims.

The system was working again by Monday afternoon after the ESC added another server and demand lessened, said ESC spokesman Andy James. The ESC said it had received no complaints Tuesday morning.

The phone line problem was fixed Sunday, when 74,000 people tried to access the system, and the ESC thought the overload problem had been handled as well. But the system failed again Monday when about 55,000 people tried to file.

Eighteen months ago, the Web site might have gotten 23,000 hits on a busy day, James said.

But the recession has pushed the jobless rate in North Carolina to 7.9 percent in November, the last month for which figures are available. That was the highest since October 1983.

The ESC said payment will be delayed about a day to people who couldn't file Sunday. People who couldn't access the system Monday had until 9 p.m. Monday to get their payment the same day they normally would.

North Carolina's ESC has about 300,000 people in its unemployment system and pays about $33 million a week in benefits.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/economy/un ... 68329.html

North Carolina State Unemployment Offices do not E-verify I-9s of immigrants as of 2008. So are undocumented immigrants getting citizens jobs?

My question is, where are these massive layoffs coming from? Okay, Wachovia, based in Charlotte, is one suspect but there have to be more businesses going belly-up that are not mentioned in news.
vmonkey56, since you brought up the point of not E-Verifying, does that mean that an illegal day laborer who found work for a month, was laid off as the job was finished and has found no work since can qualify?
I am ready to riot, and I am afraid I will be sending golden words to everyone in government, politely of course.

Well, I for one am one of those who filed for unemployment. My floor covering store has gone bellies up, and for the first time in my 40 year work history, I am on unemployment.

I guess for the Chamber of Commerce, the bright side is that there are millions of unskilled illegals who are ready to fill in for me, at a reduced price, since they don't pay federal income taxes, etc.

And even beyond that, the corporate owned Congress has done their best to destroy working class America and the Mom and Pops.... so Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe's have won. Now they can have the monopoly they paid the Congress for... Mom and Pops are going under, and fast... Dioes anyone have any idea to this day, why we need the federal government... why do we pay Federal taxes, for them to destroy us?

Dianne
Sorry to hear your job loss, on a recent 3500 mile drive I was shocked to
find so many stores closed. Entire Outlet malls closing or closed and many small outfits.

There is no way a person or company who plays by the rules can survive, when your "rulers and deciders" are corporate owned. The entire collapse of the economy is designed and planned to rob you and I of everything we have worked for. It is designed to make each and everyone of us appreciative of socialism, and willing to share the little wealth we have with everyone and anyone from wherever.

I'll say it now, and will say it again. This country will never survive another five years under FEDERAL GOVERNMENT rule. Until the states start acting on their own, and leave the federal government aka United Nations dictatorship.... this country is doomed.