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July 9, 2007

Unemployment deposits made it, despite outage

CRANSTON -- Despite the disruption in operations due to a power loss, the state Department of Labor and Training managed to make sure that 8,000 people received their unemployment insurance through direct deposit today.

“They’re supposed to get deposits by 2 o’clock, and it appears that they have,” said DOT spokeswoman Laura Hart. She added, “Our crew has done yeoman’s work.”

The department was one of six that lost power and phone service when a fire at the Pastore Complex in Cranston destroyed underground cables and stopped power from the complex’s power plant.

Ray Filippone, assistant director of income support, said the department made alternative arrangements with Citizens Bank for the unemployment insurance deposits.

“We did a special process of downloading the information to a secured disk, and then transporting that to an offsite location,” and transmitting the information from there to the bank. Filippone said security measures were taken.

-- Journal staff writer Karen Lee Ziner

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this item incorrectly spelled Ray Filippone's last name.

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