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NJ Approves 139K New Jobless Claims: Have You Gotten Yours Yet? (POLL) NJ Approves 139K New Jobless Claims: Have You Gotten Yours Yet? (POLL)
NJ Approves 139K New Jobless Claims: Have You Gotten Yours Yet? (Poll) Despite weeks-long delays in distributing more than $2.7 billion in unemployment benefits, New Jersey expects to process another 139,000 in jobless claims during the next week, state officials said (story continues below poll). The newly-approved claims include 60,000 new federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) applicants, state Labor Department Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said at a Thursday coronavirus briefing. All totaled, nearly 1.1 million workers in the Garden State have successfully applied for jobless benefits during eight weeks of layoffs and nearly 800,000 of those are…

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