DENVER — The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) held its second virtual town hall on Wednesday for federal employees affected by the government shutdown.

The shutdown is now the second-longest in U.S. history, marking its 22nd day on Wednesday.

The CDLE advises workers not to wait until they have exhausted their funds or missed a paycheck to apply for benefits. They should file a claim the day after their last day of work by going to MyUI+ .

“If you wait to file, you may not be able to get benefits for the weeks you were out of work and didn’t apply,” said Phil Spesshardt with CDLE. “We have to be able to establish good cause for somebody to collect those prior weeks. Nine times out of 10, if you exercised any control in that decision-making, good cause doesn’t exist

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