Tolleson resident Sommers Bennett says she hasn’t received unemployment payments for weeks, because of an error in the state’s new benefits system that the Department of Economic Services is aware of but can’t seem to fix.
“They won’t give me any information, and it’s going on the sixth week,” Bennett said. “My car was repossessed as a result.”
Bennett is one of hundreds of Arizonans who say DES’ new CACTUS unemployment portal, which launched Sept. 7, is maligned by glitches and other problems that is making it difficult for them to file applications for benefits or receive payments…