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Reading, Pa., CareerLink Office Offers Help to Jobless.

Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)

| August 11, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Reading Eagle. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Matt Bartel

Aug. 11--Berks County residents seeking to apply for jobless benefits have been at the end of a telephone line since the end of November 1999.

That's when the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry closed its Reading unemployment office, leaving claimants with only a phone number and job seekers with the Reading CareerLink office, which opened in August 1999.

Berks residents filing for unemployment benefits must call the state's toll-free line at 888-313-7284 or log onto the Labor and Industry Web site, www.dli.state.pa.us.

A staff of 80 works inside a locked building at the Allentown call center to process …

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