Governor Shapiro, Fix PA's Unemployment Compensation (UC) System
Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro
Pennsylvania families have suffered for too long from a broken Unemployment Compensation (UC) system.
The pandemic overwhelmed the UC system and it’s still broken, unemployed people waiting 3 months for benefits they should be getting in 3 weeks.
Pennsylvania’s Unemployment Compensation system must pay benefits when unemployed people need them.
We call on Governor Josh Shapiro Fix the UC System by:
- Appointing new, competent leadership in the Department of Labor and Industry that runs the UC system
- Stop sending illegally threatening letters to people who got the wrong benefits due to the failed PA UC system
- Meet Federal requirements to pay benefits within 3 weeks of unemployed people applying for them
- Pay the benefits still owed formerly unemployed people from 2020 and 2021
- Investigate and change the for-profit contractor now running the PA UC system, Geographic Solutions Inc
Add your name to this petition to amplify theses demands for change! We will be delivering this petition to the newly elected Governor Shapiro soon. Let us know if you would join us virtually or in-person in January.
To:
Governor-Elect Josh Shapiro
From:
[Your Name]
Pennsylvania families have suffered for too long from a broken Unemployment Compensation (UC) system.
The pandemic overwhelmed the UC system and it’s still broken, unemployed people waiting 3 months for benefits they should be getting in 3 weeks.
Pennsylvania’s Unemployment Compensation system must pay benefits when unemployed people need them.
We call on you, Governor-elect Josh Shapiro, to fix the UC System by:
1. Appointing new, competent leadership in the Department of Labor and Industry that runs the UC system
2. Stop sending illegally threatening letters to people who got the wrong benefits due to the failed PA UC system
3. Meet Federal requirements to pay benefits within 3 weeks of unemployed people applying for them
4. Pay the benefits still owed formerly unemployed people from 2020 and 2021
Investigate and change the for-profit contractor now running the PA UC system, Geographic Solutions Inc