Current Situation in Michigan Unemployment Agency (UA)
Our granddaughter works a seasonal job from April to October here in the Upper Peninsula. She applied for Unemployment on November 1st. She received a determination that she was eligible for unemployment, and received identity verification forms. This form required her to submit copies of the front and back of her driver's license, the front and back of her birth certificate, and a photo of her holding the driver's license, which she promptly did.
After two weeks with no response, she made contact with UA, and was told that " Every identity verification form has to be approved by a supervisor and we don't have enough supervisors, and they have a lot of other work to do. The identity forms are reviewed in the order that they were submitted, so don't call and pester us, it won't do any good."
She now has 10 weeks of certified, approved benefits waiting in her account, but no money has been disbursed, pending the supervisor approval of her identity verification form.
Sounds like the petulant children working at Michigan UA, got there fingers smacked for handing out $8.5 Billion to scammers, and now are slow walking legitimate benefit payments to persons who really need them.
Last edited by Oldidaho; 01/15/22.
