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High volume leads to payout delay in family leave program

by Associated Press
| January 28, 2020 1:35 PM

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Officials with Washington state's new paid family leave law are warning of delays in payouts of the weekly benefits due to the high volume of people applying since the law took effect at the start of the month.

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