PHOENIX - Ten months after the rush of unemployment claims froze Arizona's unemployment agency once the pandemic hit, stories continue to pour in from people who've been waiting months upon months for payments.Some have gotten desperate to pay bills while they wait for payments during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Arizona woman, Debra Robberson, emptied her 401K after she lost her job at a resort near Pine Top.
She was forced to because the unemployment lifeline she thought would be there for her had vanished.She applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) on May 24, 2020, and every week, Robberson looks up her unemployment account on the Department of Economic Security's (DES) website."They tell me 'There’s no issues, there’s no.