FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky will open a new hotline Tuesday for people who have yet to receive a payment from unemployment claims they filed in March amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The state received more than 282,000 claims in March and has paid out 183,000 of those claims, Gov. Andy Beshear said during a news conference Monday. An additional 70,000 claims from March were scheduled to be processed Monday night, he said.

The
state government has made it a goal to go through all of the March
claims by this week, Beshear said. Anyone in the state who filed a claim
in March and has yet to receive a payment should call the new hotline,
he added.

According
to Beshear, a few “bad apples” including a person who filed an
unemployment claim under the name of the late rapper Tupac Shakur are
responsible for slowing down the state’s unemployment processing. He
blamed people who “think they’re funny” for making “thousands of other
people wait” for their unemployment payments.

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