The secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH), Briseida Torres, reported that nearly half of the agency’s employees, 250 people, work with applications for the pandemic unemployment program (PUA). ), this after Governor Wanda Vázquez indicated today that the number of officials assigned to that work amounted to 500.
The agency Cybernews reported that, during a visit to the COVID-19 testing center in Guaynabo, the first executive stated that the instruction was to resolve the situation of unemployment applications as soon as possible.
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“The Labor Department is not a person, it is a work team. There are more than 500 people working with PUA requests. There is a technological system that private companies have and it has collapsed. We can never be satisfied while there is a person who has requested it (the benefit) and does not have it, ”said Vázquez Garced.
Ensures they hope to increase the number of applications processed
“We have 500 people in the Department working all kinds of applications. We know that there are several aspects of applications. In addition to those 500 people who are from the Department, municipal employees have also been added to us and now, since the week of the American Job Center that They continue to join this task. As for the number per day, we hope that this will continue to increase, because we know that the process lagged last week due to the type of format that was being used and that made it difficult to extract the data, “he said. the holder of the Work.
“It is not feasible or logical for our citizens,” he said of the manual data entry being made for applications for the Pandemic Unemployment Program (PUA).
The official assured that when the emergency began, they had less than 100 people who attended the applications for unemployment insurance.
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