Jobless claims crash computers at Employment Security Commission
RALEIGH (AP) — The state's Employment Security Commission is adding a server after its Web site crashed twice this week as tens of thousands of people tried to file unemployment claims.
Commission spokesman Andy James said the Web site first crashed Sunday evening when 74,000 people tried to access it. It crashed again Monday when about 55,000 people tried to file weekly benefits claims.
James said the site is seeing a dramatic increase in traffic. He said the Web site might have gotten 23,000 hits on a busy day 18 months ago.
The agency processes unemployment claims and benefits. James says people who couldn't file Sunday night might get their benefits a day late.
North Carolina's jobless rate was 7.9 percent in November, the highest since October 1983.
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