Texas got 1.5 million calls to its unemployment line in 24 hours

[tacobell fan]

As tens of thousands of Texans try to file unemployment insurance claims, they're finding the Texas Workforce Commission's phone lines jammed and website servers overloaded. Texas isn't alone.

[mirchi_bajji]

is this to get additional unemployment benefits which were mentioned in senate bill? 

they did warn that people might just leave jobs to get the better money

[tacobell fan]

9 minutes ago, mirchi_bajji said:

is this to get additional unemployment benefits which were mentioned in senate bill? 

they did warn that people might just leave jobs to get the better money

These are state benefits on top of stimulus if I'm not wrong and also people trying to be on the Queue just to be on safe side.