HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The Guam Department of Labor will begin closing out Disaster Unemployment Assistance claims next month as it works to end the program, the department announced in a press release.
To date, more than $4.5 million in DUA benefits have been processed and paid, GDOL said in the release. The latest batch amounts to more than $1 million and is currently being processed. DUA checks for this batch should be in the mail by the end of the week, according to the release.
“Our adjudicators have been making great progress and we are nearing the end of the adjudication process,” GDOL Director David Dell’Isola said in the release. “We will start closing out DUA claims next month so we can put this program to bed.”
DUA is a federal relief program administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It was initiated on Guam as a result of Typhoon Mawar, the Category 4 storm that struck the island last year.
As with prior GDOL releases regarding DUA, claimants are reminded to submit any pending documents online or by dropping them off at the DUA Office on the seventh floor of the GCIC building in Hagåtña.
Documents can be submitted online by uploading them through the hireguam.com website. To do so, claimants should click on the “Provide Additional Documentation” button under the “Unemployment Services” section, according to the GDOL release.
To check the status of a claim, claimants should log on to their HIREGUAM accounts and click the “Claim Summary” section under “Unemployment Services.”
“As a reminder, claimants are urged not to contact the Department of Administration for information about their DUA claims. Although DUA batches are processed through the DOA, the agency has no access to individual DUA claims or check information,” GDOL said in the release.
The seal of the Guam Department of Labor is seen at the agency’s Hagåtña offices on March 16, 2023.
