I'm meeting with the state
finance council today.
I expect that we will be
approving the federal unemployment
money that President Trump
signed into an order.
And whether it's 300 or 400 a week,
that money will be available to folks.
That will then, though, I wanna warn
everybody is gonna create another backlog.
Because it's gonna take us about
four weeks to create the IT platform
to administer those funds.
And that's what happened
with everything else too.
I mean, the initial backlog
was primarily because we have
a system that was built in 1972, I think.
It really just was not
able to handle this.
Couldn't handle regular
unemployment very well.
This really overwhelmed it.
And then on top of that, the Feds,
when they provided
the unemployment supplements,
did it in such a way that all 50 states
had to create new platforms for them.
Anybody knows anything about IT,
is that's not an overnight
flip a switch kind of thing.
So we are working on the current backlog,
and
I think we're getting pretty
close to complete with that.
But I expect that we will
establish another one.
I just wanna reassure everybody
who is eligible for the three or
$400 a week,
that that will be retroactive August 1st.
So you'll get the money.
Much like we did with the 600 supplement.
