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Speaking of initial unemployment claims, California has decided to cease processing initial unemployment claims for two weeks.  Apparently, we have so many in California that we need to avoid taking care of society's most vulnerable people who have had their lives ripped apart.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/20/e...ms-faster/

Maybe we should hire some of those newly unemployed to help process claims?  Just spitballing here.

That being said, I don't know about California's system specifically, but a lot of the machines that run the unemployment claims are old and the underlying programs that run it are in an archaic programming language (COBOL) that is rarely used anymore.  It wasn't designed to process that many claims at once and it is struggling under the weight of new claims.

BC

[BostonCard]

Speaking of initial unemployment claims, California has decided to cease processing initial unemployment claims for two weeks.  Apparently, we have so many in California that we need to avoid taking care of society's most vulnerable people who have had their lives ripped apart.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/20/e...ms-faster/

Maybe we should hire some of those newly unemployed to help process claims?  Just spitballing here.

That being said, I don't know about California's system specifically, but a lot of the machines that run the unemployment claims are old and the underlying programs that run it are in an archaic programming language (COBOL) that is rarely used anymore.  It wasn't designed to process that many claims at once and it is struggling under the weight of new claims.

BC