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December 28, 2005

Delayed unemployment checks are in the mail

PROVIDENCE - A group of unemployed Rhode Islanders who did not receive their unemployment checks in the mail last week should get them tomorrow, according to the state Department of Labor and Training.

The checks were cut Dec. 19 and should have arrived Dec. 20 or 21. But they were misdirected by the U.S. Postal Service and were found today in Springfield, Mass., according to Jean Severance, deputy director of the department.

Severance could not say exactly how many people missed their weekly check, but she said the department received 60 calls from people who said their check hadn't arrived. She estimated that fewer than 100 of the 6,519 checks sent out last week were misdirected.

"Of course, it's very important to those few that didn't get them," she said.

Posted by Jack Perry  at 3:52 PM | Permalink