Tenants scored a victory in the D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday.
A series of hearings this fall revealed the difficulties jobless workers have had accessing federal benefits, including long wait times to speak to the Department of Employment Services (DOES), and months-long waits for benefits.
People receiving unemployment benefits in the region may need to wait at least one week before aid resumes after President Trump signed a pandemic relief plan.
Legal Aid DC said Saturday that more than 75,000 people could lose unemployment benefits due to the delay in passing the pandemic relief package.
Unemployed D.C. residents are going without their benefits because they worked in neighboring states, even if it was for just two weeks.
Monica Stempo, a former bartender in D.C., joined other restaurant, self-employed and gig workers who testified to the D.C.
With courthouses still closed, judges and legal aid groups fear people who can’t afford lawyers are being shut out of the civil justice system altogether.
As hunger spreads across a locked-down nation, the Trump administration has balked at the simplest ways to feed the hardest hit, through expanding school meals programs and food-stamp benefits and waiving work requirements as unemployment reaches
By the end of the semester, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the students became more thoughtful, empathetic grantmakers.
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