July 10, 2020


Jay Inslee’s embattled Employment Security Department (ESD) has finally been able to reduce the large number of valid, but still unprocessed claims (from 81,000 to 35,000), but unnecessary anxiety still continues for tens of thousands of Washington State residents.  Due primarily to the emergency assistance of the National Guard and a reduction of new claims, the ESD was finally able to claim its reduced the backlog that has overwhelmed the department for the four months of the economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak (and the governor’s random decisions to stop private construction and other segments of the economy).  And, since state workers will soon be able to collect unemployment benefits once they take a mandatory furlough day (after Inslee gave them a second pay raise in a year), there is a personal incentive to clear the backlog since, ESD employees don’t want their checks delayed by the administrative failure of Governor Inslee and his hand-picked ESD management team. (Everett Herald and Shift)

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