So, phase two of the unemployment relief program with a more specific
focus on the recently unemployed will now be opened at the middle of
this month.
It will be routed through the same COVID19.bz website, and applicants
are asked to be very precise with their information:
Dr. Carla Barnett - Economic Czar
"Once we come past the middle of July, we're going to be clearing up the
portal that people were able to apply on and you will be able to go on and
do a new application if you're going to be applying for phase 2. So, these
people will be redirected to the Ministry of Human Development to determine
their qualification for any assistance that may be available there and
persons under phase 1 who were approved and who are still unemployed are
eligible to reapply in phase 2. We will ask that people reapply because we
are aware that people have gone back to work and we want to be sure that
people who are back at work are not included in those who are going to be
in phase 2. One of the things that hampered us a lot in the phase 1 of the
unemployment relief program was the amount of user errors, user input
errors that we found and so, I would want to ask applicants both on the
MSNE program and on phase 2 of the Unemployment Relief Program to please
exercise the greatest of care in inputting information. Your name in
particular, your social security number, you wouldn't imagine the amount of
errors we had in those kinds of identifiers and if you make a mistake in
that, then it really takes a long time to sort those out. Take your time,
make your information is correct that you're inputting, and it moves a lot
faster after that."
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