RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers shelved a pair of bills that would have given jobless claimants half the time to file appeals with a state agency still grappling with cases related to the pandemic.
A Senate panel on Monday voted unanimously to shelve the legislation, which was pitched as a way to improve efficiency at the Virginia Employment Commission, an agency that has struggled to keep up with legitimate claims at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and has been inundated with fraudulent ones. Last week a House committee presented a supplementary provision.
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