MD unemployment claims backlog remains, but officials see progress ahead

While Department of Labor officials say that new leadership and plans for procedural changes have put the state on track to solve a yearslong backlog of unemployment insurance claims, claimants and their attorneys, who have yet to see definitive progress following a 2022 settlement, remain dubious. The top Republican lawmaker in Annapolis has also called on his fellow legislators to bring in labor officials for a hearing about why they “habitually cannot deliver this critical service.”