Park Hill substitute teacher denied unemployment benefits

Substitute teachers in the Park Hill School District told 41 Action News that the process of filing for unemployment benefits has been a nightmare.

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BothMissouri and Kansas working tomake sure everyone gets theunemployment benefits they needbut for some the process hasbeen far more difficult thananticipated.

When actionsborder mackenz Nelson sharesone man's experience.

This isthe first time many people havehad to file for unemploymentand substitute teachers in thepark hill school district sayfiling during the pandemic hasbeen an absolute nightmare.

Igot my claims were sold itsince school wages were not.For some reason we're notconsidered in August of twentynineteen is when BritainBurnett began his stand as asub in park hill when schoolsclose last month he went fromworking nearly full time tobeing unemployed.

Close theschools for us for the rest ofthe school year it's kind oflights.

Not two months worth ofwork that just got swept downfrom under us on March twentyfifth Burnett's claim wasprocess but came back statinghe may only be eligible toreceive benefits based only onnon school wages.

Burnett sayshe's tried calling and emailingthe Missouri department oflabor but hasn't had successreaching anyone.

Schooldistrict doesn't specify any.In any case handbooks.

Then I'mnot eligible for unemploymentso I'm just kind of up in theair there are limitations onschool district employees tocollect unemployment duringscheduled breaks we reached outto the school district and theMissouri department of laborfor clarification on benefitsduring the pandemic.

And we'restill waiting on their responsein the meantime the park hillschool district is offering topay their hourly workers toclean the buildings however theopportunity excludes allsubstitute teachers man it'srough being a substituteteacher and sometimes there'snot a lot of appreciation.

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