//Unemployed workers battle busy signals and long waits to file for benefits

Unemployed workers battle busy signals and long waits to file for benefits

Eight hours and 48 minutes.That’s how long Camilla Christiansen Poole waited on hold with the North Carolina Division of Employment Security, trying to find out why she could not file for unemployment online.The Asheville, North Carolina, resident had been laid off from her job as a medical courier on March 24 — one of a record number of people left without work because of the