Others haven’t been as lucky. Alex Mudd, a former chef, stopped receiving benefits the first week of April. He has now exhausted his savings, and various agents at the DOES call center have given him different explanations for the problem. Mudd says he was promised more than three weeks ago that the issue would be resolved and was told that he should “just keep filing” his weekly paperwork.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2021 16:00 UTC