Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) is supposed to be a lifeline. But for some, it’s a bureaucratic nightmare that leaves them in limbo and at a loss to collect the unemployment benefits they count on in times of need.
That pain is being felt more acutely this week as DETR has gone dark for a long-awaited overhaul to modernize the system.
As we’ve been tracking how that’s affecting Las Vegas locals who are desperate for help, a life-long Henderson resident reached out asking us to tell her story, saying she believes it highlights a larger failure in our state’s unemployment system and how it’s harming vulnerable workers…