Topic - Suzi Levine

Related Stories

Head of state employment agency to join Biden administration

Associated Press

State is working through secondary jobless benefit backlog

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

State continues work to clear unemployment benefit backlog

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

50 National Guard members start work on jobless aid backlog

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

Washington state taps National Guard for jobless aid backlog

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 26, 2020, file photo, is a sign at the headquarters for Washington state's Employment Security Department at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington officials say they believe they have recovered about half of the up to $650 million in unemployment benefits paid to criminals who used stolen identities to file claims during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Washington state gets back millions in stolen jobless aid

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 2, 2020 file photo a sign explains the closure of a shop in the Pike Place Market in Seattle. As the coronavirus outbreak has caused record number of people to seek unemployment benefits Washington state officials said Thursday that impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson,File)

‘Hundreds of millions’ in bogus jobless benefits paid out

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

Health care workers stand some six feet apart at Harborview Medical Center, a part of UW Medicine, during a noon hour demonstration asking management to do more to protect staff, patients and the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Seattle. Protest organizers said UW Medicine has failed to fully implement public health guidance designed to flatten the curve, and has refused to extend agreements with unions that provide economic protections for employees. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Washington’s unemployment system sees spike in impostors

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

$2.1 billion in unemployment benefits paid in Washington

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

Medical assistants wait to be handed testing kits at a drive-up coronavirus testing site Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Seattle. The site, open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, is available to anyone displaying the virus symptoms, are pregnant, over 60 or have a chronic condition, as well as health care workers and first responders. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

1 in 5 Washington workers have filed unemployment claims

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

Surge in unemployment benefit claims continues in Washington

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

A carpenter, who declined to be identified, covers a closed store with plywood panels in view of the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in Washington set a new record last week, with tens of thousands more people in the state filing new claims as non-essential businesses remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

‘Mind boggling’: Last week’s WA jobless claims set record

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press