NY's unemployment hotline crashes

[LeBuick]

So many people filed for unemployment in NY that the calls crashed the system. 10,000 calls per hour... WOW.

http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/othercities/buffalo/stories/2009/01/05/daily22.html

The state Department of Labor, which oversees unemployment insurance claims, received more than 10,000 phone calls an hour on a toll-free hotline Tuesday, leading to the crash. The department’s online claim filing system also shut down under the volume of traffic it received.

 

[LeBuick]

Double WOW, North Carolina Jobless Claims Overwhelm Web Site. I don't know how you guys say doing nothing is the right thing to do. People are hurting and hurting bad.



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1869868,00.html

Unemployment is up so much in North Carolina that the state's Internet site for benefits crashed twice this week under a rush of claims.

The number of people trying to sign up online for new or continuing benefits was as much as triple pre-recession levels Sunday and Monday, the Employment Security Commission said. That volume, together with a phone line problem, overwhelmed the agency's computers and prevented some people from filing claims. (See pictures of the stock market crash of 1929.)