During a recent hearing of the state Assembly Budget Committee – to which the Commissioner of the N.J. Department of Labor and Workforce Development was invited to respond to legislators’ questions – 9th District Assemblyman Brian E. Rumpf called for faster processing of unemployment claims.
According to Rumpf, many of his constituents faced a loss of livelihood due to the pandemic and its associated restrictions, and subsequently faced an unemployment claim backlog.
“The unemployment claim process passed a crisis threshold that was disgraceful and traumatic for so many families,” the…
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