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Was a bit nervous or untrusting at first, but my calls went thru. First time the wait was a bit long but their customer chat line on their page was helpful and put me at ease that I would receive my call. Today my call dropped because of EDD and Claimyr heard my concern on the same chat and another call was made within the hour.
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Used this service a couple times now. Before I'd call 200 times in less than a weak frustrated as can be. But using claimyr with a couple hours of waiting i was on the line with an representative or on hold. Dropped a couple times but each reconnected not long after and was mission accomplished, thanks to Claimyr.
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I tried for weeks to get thru to EDD PFL program with no luck. I gave this a try thinking it may be a scam. OMG! It worked and They got thru within an hour and my claim is going to finally get paid!! I upgraded to the $60 call. Best $60 spent!
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QuantumQuest
Sounds like u did exactly the right thing! My sister had a similar issue and the state senator route worked. Took about 8 days for her to get a call. the regular unemployment phone number is basically useless these days.
Theres actually a Facebook group called "Help with New York unemployment" with like 50,000 people in it. Lots of success stories from people who went through their reps. You should check it out while waiting.
PixelPioneer
•Thanks, just requested to join!
Mei Zhang
•That group saved my sanity during my unemployment nightmare. so much good info there.
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Whatever you do, ACT FAST!!! The longer these fraudsters collect benefits in your name, the harder it is to fix. Learned this the hard way when someone used my info last year.
Anyone else notice how much identity theft has increased for unemployment specifically? Its gotta be an inside job or a major data breach in the system. Too many people dealing with this same exact issue.
It's because they relaxed all the verification requirements during covid and never tightened them back up properly. Perfect storm for scammers.
I work in IT security and you'd be SHOCKED how bad government systems are protected. Like 1990s level security for some of them.
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if any1 finds a solution plz update been trying to reach ny unemployment for like 5 weeks straight and now my landlord is threatening eviction ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
check my comment above about claimyr! saved me from the same situation
thx will try anything at this point
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The NY unemployment system is deliberately complicated to prevent people from getting benefits. It's been this way for YEARS. Identity verification through ID.me is just the security checkpoint - you still need to file an actual claim. Sorry you're dealing with this!
Melissa Lin
Just an FYI - after you do apply (which yes, is separate from ID verification), don't be surprised if your claim gets flagged for additional verification. Mine was and I couldn't get any benefits for 6 weeks until I could talk to someone. The phone lines are impossible to get through on, I had to use claimyr.com to get a callback from an agent. Frustrating but it finally got resolved.
Saame. My claim was pending for almost 8 weeks because of "verification issues" whatever that means. Calling did nothing until I tried that service too. Suddenly my money appeared three days later 😒
Sean O'Brien
One suggestion that really helped me - contact ur bank and put a verbal password on ur account that's NOT tied to security questions someone might know. Also check if any address change requests have been submitted for any of ur accounts.
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Zara Shah
you can contact NY AG's office too - they have a specific division for unemployment fraud now because it got so bad. https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds/Filing-a-Consumer-Complaint
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