Furloughed food service worker listed as employed with Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development

This is Morgan Bender's seventh week without an unemployment check, even though she is a furloughed employee.

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News 18 talked with a furloughed food service worker about the problems she has faced and how it's impacted her.

"it's been so long that i'm starting to get a little nervous" morgan bender from logansport is going week seven without an unemployment check.

"i work in lafayette as a banquet manager and i work here in logansport on the weekends as a bartender" she was furloughed from her catering job and the bar she works at won't reopen until july 4th.

She had no problem filing for unemployment with the state during the first two weeks.

"and then the third week i applied and almost a day later it came back with an issue type of fully employed and i'm like that's not right" and so began the constant go around of trying to fix the problem.

"so i call and your're on hold for three hours and then you finally get a hold of someone if you don't get disconnected" the indiana d-w-d website says filing for unemployment is as easy as 1-2-3.

But for bender it's been anything but easy.

"we're going to take your information and email it to them and i'm like who is them?

I want to talk to them!"

Bender is now living with her parents to try and save money.

"just watching my bank account slowly drain and that's a really scary thought" she says she had big plans that are now put on hold.

"ok i need to think about buying a house and putting back for retirement and it's like that's not even something i can really think about" she says the worst part is just not knowing.

"the most anxious part about it, is notows ing on with the process"na darne en her catering job will begin again.

She says it's ill important to be cautiousabo- gathering events like the ones she works to slow the spread of the virus.

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