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Arizona PUA Portal Helps State Pay Half a Billion Dollars in Jobless Benefits, Shrinks Backlog

The $519 million in total benefits paid to 468,000 people easily eclipsed the prior week's $160 million in payments as the DES compensates the crush of applicants who have lost jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Arizona Department of Economic Security and Geographic Solutions have deployed a new Internet-based case management system to track services provided under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998.