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Arkansas small-business owners tell committee unemployment systems, relief loans left them behind
Summary
Two El Dorado small-business owners told the State Agencies committee they were denied multiple relief programs, had trouble accessing pandemic unemployment assistance and detail restrictions that hampered reopening — prompting legislators to press agencies for follow-up.
Two small-business owners from El Dorado told a legislative State Agencies committee on May 19 that state and federal relief programs did not reach them and that reopening rules left them unable to recoup months of lost income.
Heather Gilmore, who said she has owned a Union County salon for 14 years, told the panel she closed after Governor Hutchinson's March 23 COVID-19 order and that from March 25 to May 6 her family had no income. Gilmore said she and the six stylists who work out of her storefront made repeated attempts to apply for unemployment and pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) but were denied multiple times; she said she…
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