“Dear PoPville,
The DC Paid Family Leave payment portal is down (supposedly due to ransomware attack on the vendor). I’m on maternity leave now and have been awaiting a payment for over a week now. My husband is going to take time off soon and is unable to apply for benefits with the portal down as well.
This will certainly impact our financial planning, and I feel for anyone who needs this income or will have to go back to work instead of remaining on leave. I wish we had some kind of update on when payments will resume but essentially all DC has said is “sorry for the inconvenience”. Heads up to anyone planning on taking DC paid leave soon!”
From DC Department of Employment Services:
“Last week, the vendor operating http://dcnetworks.org notified us of a major service interruption impacting Paid Family Leave and the Virtual One Stop, but not Unemployment Insurance. Until the system is restored, DOES cannot make PFL benefit payments.”